InformationAesthetics brings us a great talk from TEDx on Molecular Animation. Chemistry was one of the earliest forms of visualization, classic ball and stick visualizations that brought particles tinier than the eye can see to life. Today, many molecular visualizations are the same but new technologies are coming along to show new effects in bonds and structures with amazing detail and opening the world to whole new types of computational chemistry.
Next to a movie that originates back from around 2003 that focuses on the replication of DNA, he also shows a newer version that has been accomplished through “updated science, updated technology”, revealing how DNA mitosis through a nifty process of some quite ‘mechanical’ signal broadcasting system. At the end, he highlights the processes behind a malaria infection of a human child via a mosquito bite, through invasion of cellular tissues including the liver and blood. malaria spreads in your blood.
via TEDx Talk on Molecular Animation: Combining Cinema and Biology – information aesthetics.
