IMA Imaging Gallery

During the past summer, IMA Director Doug Arnold met with Lyndel King, the curator of the Weisman Art Museum. In anticipation of major expansion of the Frank Gehry structure housing the museum, a striking Minneapolis landmark, King and Arnold discussed a possible exhibition of scientific imagery in the new galleries. Building on the current IMA thematic program on Imaging, Arnold issued an open invitation to imaging scientists worldwide to contribute their images to an informal online gallery. The response has been spectacular, and the gallery's tremendous diversity of striking graphics has provided momentum to ongoing discussions about a future museum exhibit. In the meantime, we can enjoy the fabulous images which have been submitted, some of which are shown in this page. Further submissions are still very welcome. See the gallery web page for the rest of the images and the submission instructions.

A composite "color woven" image of an experimentally acquired particle image velocimetry dataset, highlighting areas of significant positive vorticity (red), negative vorticity (blue), strongely negative Reynolds shear stress (green), and high swirl strength (orange or magenta, depending on the direction of the swirl).
Graphic by Tim Urness and Victoria Interrante, Computer Graphics Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.

Diffraction tomography sinograms for isotropic and anisotropic cylinder/cube, and their difference.
Graphic by Matthew Lewis, Advanced Radiological Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Computer generated painterly image rendered from a 3D laser-scanned dataset of the Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis.
Graphic by Hui Xu, Nathan Gossett and Baoquan Chen, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.