ENTROPY: NOW IN GLORIOUS 3D

[defrog]

I get press releases.

Sometimes they contain photos.

And sometimes they look like this.



It’s a computerized astrophysics simulation of the core of a supernova from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory using a technique called software-based parallel volume rendering, which is used to make sense of the billions of tiny points of data collected from an X-ray, MRI, or a researcher’s simulation.

This astrophysics simulation seeks to discover the mechanism behind core-collapse supernovae, or the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova, different colors and transparencies assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.

Are you getting all of this?

Champagne supernova,

This is dF

Comments

[darkbay.livejournal.com]

Way cool actually.

And here I was being a dork, squinting my eyes, tilting my head to the side trying to see the picture in the picture.

Funny, all I see are boobies.

Wait, no...that's different...very different.

Nevermind.