Neural Geometry

3D Editorial Science Art • Simons Foundation - Global Brain • 2022
3D art: disembodied hands measuring various parts of a colorful network graph.

FOR
The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB), 2022. Thanks to Emily Singer.

WORK
Concepts, illustration

TOOLS
ZBrush, C4D, X-Particles, Redshift

INFO
Sculpture + procedural / generative art for an SCGB article about "neural geometry": researchers record activity from hundreds of thousands of neurons simultaneously, resulting in high-dimensional data that's hard to make sense of. So they use analogous forms called manifolds to analyze it. By Brian DePasquale: Searching for Shapes in Neural Activity.

3D art: disembodied hands measuring various parts of a colorful network graph.
3D art: disembodied hands measuring various parts of a colorful network graph.

Network created in Cinema 4D & X-Particles. I sculpted the hands and tape measure in ZBrush.

© Olena Shmahalo