picture thinking and science

Visualisation makes boring labwork appealing for a greater audience. That is the idea behind the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Fascinating images and graphics make the findings of scientists accessible.
Some images seem modern versions of the oldfashioned schoolpictures of the Dutch painter Jetses, like this detail of an image of micro organisms in a watery environment, that was rewarded with an Honourable Mention.
Another branch of science that got an Honourable Mention: theology, with an impressive graphic of the many cross references between the chapters of the Bible. The colourfull graphic, looking like a rainbow, makes you understand the depth of this kind of literature research. The first price was for a visualisation of the human circulatory system. You can find it on the website of NewScientist.

Look at: http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn14809

picture thinking live

In the garden of the castle Haarzuilens at Utrecht, people could be what they want to be, for one day: elf, princes, dragon... Even a king, with your own castle.. No need for competition: Everybody is beautiful, everybody is different. Seemingly opposites go arm in arm. Different is fun. The sun is shining. This is the reality of imagination. This is picturethinking live...

Picture thinking at sea

Today I saw the Thinker of Rodin at the museum and now I have to think myself. On the background the sun dissapears in the ocean. I am at the Cliffhouse, San Francisco. Just around the corner the Bay begins. This place is one of the nicest corners in the world.
Yesterday I went to Alcatraz. That place makes you think too... Beautiful island, great flora and fauna and on it this ridiculous prison. There they had nothing to do except thinking. On the audiotour a prisoner tells how he occupied himself with visualisation. He could see anything he wanted in his mind.
This Thinker of Rodin, inprisoned in his unleverable body, is that what he is doing? And why does he lean with his right elbow on his left knee? To allow lateral thinking?