Totem magazine recently concluded its "Art of Science" contest celebrating the aesthetics of scientific research and the way in which science and art inform each other.
The winners of the recent contest were (from first to third place): "Turing Model for Animal Patterns" by undergraduate Michelle Dan; "Butterfly Wings in a Penrose Tiling" by undergraduate George Stathopoulos; and "Building Nano Epcot" by graduate students Carlos Portela and Bryce Edwards.
This silk painting simulates the Turing Model of reaction-diffusion instability to generate animal patterns.
Credit: Michelle Dan
Each rhombus in the non-periodic tiling is a close up picture of a wing of a blue or red butterfly wing. Emergent patterns can appear across multiple tiles, though any perceived color change should be an optical illusion from the arrangement of the tiles.
Credit: George Stathopoulos
Nanoscale architected carbon material resulting in an Epcot-like geodesic dome.
Credit: Carlos M. Portela Galindo and Bryce Edwards
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