No, the tumor hasn’t exploded. In this visualization, the purple and green rays “shine” brightest where it’s safest to approach.
Plotting the path to a brain tumor first requires a map. As part of next week’s VisWeek conference, the 2010 IEEE Visualization Contest pitted graphics teams from both industry and academia against one another to see who could best draw that map. Each team transformed the same sets of MRI data into unique, and sometimes bizarre, pictures of the safest paths through the brain. Neurosurgeons decided the winner.
Next year’s contest to model the turbulence from a fluid pump is already accepting submissions.
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