- Published: Tuesday, June 09 2015 01:48
The Drake Equation - Created for Karen Randell, Director of Special Projects at the SETI Institute
For the SETI Institute i designed a visual of the Drake Equation. The Drake Equation helps estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way. Frank Drake, founder of the SETI Institute, thought up this equation to stimulate dialogue at the first SETI meeting in Green Bank, West Virginia.
This image of the Drake Equation was created for the SETIjam; a game-jam meant for developers to create a game based on the theme of the Drake Equation. So it was very important to visualise the Drake Equation in a very clear way, for everyone to understand. Therefor we decided to make a panel for each part of the equation and put it in writing as well as in images what each part of the equation meant.
Aliens - Created for Alan Gould of the UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science
I created these aliens for an Astrobiology planetarium show at the Lawrence Hall of Science. The appearance of the aliens was based on various Kepler exo-planet environments.
While the ‘Gliding Hopperoo’ lives on a moon of Kepler 90h which has low gravity, hence the long legs of the creature, the Gigantipede lives on Kepler-62f, which may be cold and have a lot of ice, hence the fur. And the “Deep Dweller Octopod” is a huge sea creature that lives on Kepler-22b, which possibly is an ocean planet.
Since the planetarium show was meant for kids i had to illustrate them as friendly creatures, because of course we did not want to give the kids nightmares ;-)
(More about these creatures on http://www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=graphics)
Robot ASTRON - Created for Michael Garrett, General Director & Scientific Director ASTRON
This illustration depicts cognitive computing (a humanlike computer-brain) to process large astronomical surveys (huge amounts of data). Michael Garrett wrote a paper on this subject. (read more on: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7021)
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