Blender on the cover of BioEssays

Bart · November 27, 2009

Once again, a Blender graphic features on the cover of a scientific journal.Â (See also our post on Science Magazine)

Hua Wong wrote:

Explanation from the main page : 3D computer graphics of DNA transcription in eukaryotes. Previously determined molecular structures were placed in this scene according to available experimental data and rendered using the Blender software.
For the layman : We gathered models from several sources and imported them all in Blender, resolved an intricate 3D puzzle and made a picture of it.
And the people at BioEssays deemed it worthy of decorating their journal :)
Enjoy !

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Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

7 responses

TonyM

27 November 2009 at 15:40

Cool. It’d be nice to see a bigger image though. I wonder if there’s one around somewhere.

Bart

27 November 2009 at 15:53

I just received a higher-quality image from Hua.

Grandmaster B

27 November 2009 at 17:25

Oh, thats what it looks like :D

jwrl

28 November 2009 at 00:01

That’s a beautiful piece of art. I’m not surprised they used it as cover art.

tidbit

28 November 2009 at 05:06

Very detailed O_o

flawedprefect

28 November 2009 at 05:58

Combining two of my favourite subjects: Science, and Blender. It’s great to see there is a community of dedicated artists with a passion for supplying their talents to education and science.