On Friday, Sept. 26, a presentation and evaluation session for the Science Visualization Assignments was carried out. The expressive illustrations by the art students and the progress in artistic representation made by the science students were all amazing. Sayoko Tanaka Sensei evaluated the works from a visual design perspective and the instructors, who had assigned the themes, from a scientific standpoint. While there were some harsh comments, some received high praises with the instructors remarking that they would like to use some of the pieces for their academic conference presentations. It turned out to be a very animated and lively class.
The photographs of the works are Mito Kuragano’s (3^rd Year at School of Art & Design) “The Mechanism of How An Earthquake Occurs: Elastic Rebound Theory” (one image), and Chizuru Kanda’s (3^rd Year at School of Art & Design) “An Illustration Summarizing the Fundamentals of Radiation” (2 images). Though the themes are not something that the art students are used to portraying, both works are easy to understand and well thought out. There were many other wonderful works, which will be introduced at another occasion. (Takasaki)