The Viz Lab was a NISE Network project from 2005-2009.
The nanoscale world is so small that we can't directly see or experience it. At one hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, nanoscale particles are governed by unfamiliar physical forces. How do we visualize this world and the forces that dominate it? The Visualization Laboratory, based at the Exploratorium, was exploring this question through research and development of different types of visualizations. Our goal was to create and study effective and innovative visualization techniques for understanding and experiencing the nanoscale.
Available in the Catalog
Illustrations [1]
- Zoom Into a Computer Chip [2] Poster and Illustration (created by Viz Lab)
- Zoom Into a Butterfly Wing [3] Poster and Illustration (created by Viz Lab)
- Zoom Into the Human Bloodstream [4] Poster and Illustration (created by Viz Lab)
- Combined Zooms Poster: Everything Is Made of Atoms [5] Poster (created by Viz Lab)
- Zoom into a Pencil Line of Graphene with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) [6] - Illustration
Zooms [7]
- Multimedia Zoom Into a Human Hand [8] (created by Viz Lab)
- Multimedia Zoom into a Nasturtium Leaf [9] (created by Viz Lab)
- Zoom into a Blue Morpho Butterfly [10] video with and without narration
- Zoom into a Lotus Leaf [11]video with and without narration
Scale Ladder Diagrams [12], Books, Posters and Zooms
- Scale Ladder [13] image files (with and without rulers) (created by Viz Lab)
- Guidelines for the Design and Use of Scale Ladders [14] (created by Viz Lab)
- Image Scaler Software [15] (created by Viz Lab)
- How Small is Nano? book and poster [16]
- How Small is Nano? video [17]
- Shrinking Robots program [18]
- Is That Robot Real? book and poster [19]
- Key Concepts NanoDays 2012 posters [20]
- The Scale of the Universe interactive media [21]
Image Collection [22]
- Image Collection [22]
Art Nano [23]
- Art Nano: Artists Visualizing the Nanoscale [24]archival report (2007) (created by Viz Lab)
- Three Drops Exhibit [26] (created by Viz Lab)
- Mixing Molecules Exhibit [27] (created by Viz Lab)
Illustration Wins NSF/Science Magazine Award
The NISE NetworkZoom into the Human Bloodstream has won the 2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge from NSF and Science magazine! This artwork is one of three illustrations showing how familiar objects are made of atoms. Learn more and download the images. [28]