Head: Dr. Martina R.
Fröschl, MSc
The common understanding of modern scientific research becomes more and
more difficult as activities are carried out in size and time ranges we cannot perceive with the naked eye. The key to understanding
for laymen is most commonly a visualization of these hidden processes. The Science Visualization Lab at the University of
Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria specializes in making invisible scientific phenomena visible.
The majority of those
phenomena are outside the limits of human perception, therefore, the creations of the Science Visualization Lab under the
leadership of Alfred Vendl are focused on the visualization of these procedures utilizing the appropriate technical equipment.
Computer-generated imagery and animations are created in different innovative workflows while using imagery obtained from
light microscopes, confocal microscopes, computer tomography, and different electron microscopes to create visible dynamic
sequences of normally invisible procedures. One of the key goals is to make these procedures understandable for broad audiences
while still implementing them accurately. To that end, some of these animation sequences have been used in popular TV-productions,
art installations, and other means of knowledge communication.
