NSFScience and Engineering Visualization ChallengeScience
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Introduction
Illustration
The winner
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The winner
Photography
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The Judges
The Synapse Revealed
Credit: Graham Johnson, Graham Johnson Medical Media, Boulder, Colorado

Deep inside the brain, a neuron prepares to transmit a signal to its target. To capture that fleeting moment, Graham Johnson based this elegant drawing on ultra-thin micrographs of sequential brain slices. After scanning a sketch into 3D modeling software, he colored the image and added texture and glowing lighting reminiscent of a scanning electron micrograph.
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