An Egyptian Child Mummy wins first place in visualization challenge
by zoss in scienza, graphia
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the winners in its 2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. In the photography category, first place was awarded to An Egyptian Child Mummy by Paul Brown et. al.
As reported in Science; this unwrapped 2000-year-old mummy is for a 4-/5-year-old girl, who was named Sherit by the Rosicrucian museum, where it’s been hosted for the past 75 years. 60,000 two-dimensional CT scans, and clever 3D reconstruction algorithms enabled the researchers to “photograph” the interior of the mummy. Amazing. They could even tell that she didn’t die of trauma or infectious disease.
Also pretty cool from past years’ competitions: a 2005 honorable mention in the non-interactive media category: Evolutionary Morphing: Statistical Interpolation of Ancestral Morphology Along an Evolutionary Tree.
