Ben Fry should receive some kind of giant award for what he is doing with Processing. These scholars really presented some awesome work, not least of which was the visualization study done by Merry Wang, our team member for the next few months.įriday saw more great talks that filled in the spectrum. The incredibly validating takeaway was that the future of biology lies in games and interaction as modes of education and communication, exactly what we've been proposing here inside Autodesk. The other part of the first day was the fantastic presentations from 10 student recipients of Vesalius Trust scholarships. I also got to see Hall Train and Kathryn Chorney present about their experience merging art with science and furthering the process of discovery around paleontology. Wilson present with Gaël McGill about the future of interactive education and their Life on Earth project. The highlights of the opening day fell into two categories for me. Both courses combined a ton of material intended to get medical illustrators jump started with great third party tools that have been specifically designed to help illustrators and animators easily retrieve accurate scientific molecular information from the Protein Data Bank and other sources for display in tools like Autodesk Maya (and Blender and C4D, in the case of ePMV).
Martin and Merry attended the mMaya course, taught by Gaël McGill. I ended up getting assigned to attend the ePMV course taught by Graham Johnson and Fabian de Kok-Mercad. There were three of us in attendance who are affiliated with the Autodesk M&E Life Sciences team. Preconference classes: ePMV for me and mMaya for Martin and Merry The event finished with over 450 attendees, their highest attendance ever (congrats!) and featured an amazing spectrum from incredible fine art to discussions of dinosaurs to fantastic technology advances in visualization. Saturday night, I returned home after a week in Toronto during which I spent most of my time attending the Association of Medical Illustrators 2012 conference. A survey is posted on the main iGEM page and can be found here:Īutodesk Molecular Visualization Survey for iGEM teams
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In addition to supporting the growth of the amazing new field of synthetic biology, we've already seen last year's student teams use Autodesk Maya and Digizyme's mMaya to create some fantastic visualizations of their project efforts.Īs the competition heats up, we're seeking feedback from the nearly 300 iGEM teams on their efforts with Maya to help tell their story. For the 2nd year in a row, we're supporting the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM).
Using autodesk maya professional#
One of the facets of our project is to support a variety of academic and professional organizations and get word and information out about Autodesk's current products and their application to Life Sciences tasks. In addition to interviewing around 20 life sciences companies and organizations to gather requirements and feedback on our new effort, we've been hiring and doing a lot more. It's been a ridiculously busy summer continuing to get this project off the ground.
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