click in the image to look at a 700 x 875 logo (172Kb jpeg)
The ExPASy logo took about 10 hours to be rendered as an antialiased 1400 x1750 image
with KPT Bryce running on a 8100/80 Macintosh.
Creation Details
First, contour lines of the Matterhorn/Cervin/Cervino were traced from a
1:25000 map of the Zermatt region. The mountain was then created by "skinning"
of the contour lines with Strata-Studio Pro
and exported as a 3D DXF object into
DeepView which
computed a grayscale-depth image that was imported
into KPT Bryce,
where it was used as a template for the creation of the mountain.
The same operations were repeated with the text of the logo.
The final scene composition, texture tweaking and rendering were performed with
KPT Bryce.
ExPASy stereogram
click in the image to look at a 600 x 600 stereogram (244Kb gif)
The Stereogram took about 7 seconds to be rendered as a 800 x800 image
with DeepView
running on a 8100/80 Macintosh.
Creation Details
The 3D DXF-Objects used to create the ExPASy logo were imported into
DeepView which computed a stereogram by
deforming a texture that was created
with Photoshop. The texture was obtained by blending
several layers (two color gradients, two layers containing amino-acids rendered with
RasMol, and one layer containing a
repetitive texture
generated with the help of several Photoshop filters).
Prosite logo
click in the image to look at a 600 x 600 logo (128Kb jpeg)
The logo took about 6 hours to be rendered in background (while I was working on
Swiss-PdbViewer) as a 800x800 image
with PovRay
running on a 8500/120 Macintosh.
Creation Details
Insulin (1cph.pdb) was loaded into
Swiss-PdbViewer
and rotated until a nice position was obtained. Then a
PovRay
scene description was created. Sky, water and the magifying glass were added into
the scene description, and the image was eventually rendered.
Note that the part of Insulin actually magnified does not represent the Insulin signature
(The only sulphur atom visible on this logo lays on the bottom left side of the protein).
But the protein definitely looked nicer in it's actual position, and that's what's cool
about "art": it doesn't necesarily have to mean anything...
Disclaimer
These images do not reflect my employer's point of view about art, and my employer
has nothing to do with them, since they were created during my spare time.
ExPASy Home page
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click in the image to look at a 600 x 600 stereogram (244Kb gif)
click in the image to look at a 600 x 600 logo (128Kb jpeg)
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