Atta Texana Leafcutting Ant Colony Visualization

Last updated 12/09/2004

atta installation by Carol LaFayette, a presence-sensitive multimedia installation about remote sensing

atta videos by Tatsuya Nakamura, describing the Atta colony data visualization

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Atta Texana model superimposed over the original site	Atta Texana Leafcutter Ant Colony, translated from Ground Penetrating Radar Scan

Pixel representations of slices

The color 3D cube with original T3D visualization color mapping.

T3D visualization courtesy of Carl Pierce Dept of Geology/Geoscience	Maya visualization: The planes with image textures based on the HDF.

Points representation of the 3D geometry made from the HDF data.

New: 5 slices (from raw data) rendered in Maya (samples for printing)

New: 81 slices (from raw data) rendered in Maya (samples for printing)

Sample images from the raw data.

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11x8 in. (3300x2400 pixels) 09/28

81 slices from the raw data. 09/21
Test rendering results from RenderMan. 09/17
Comparison with using absolute values. 09/17
5 slices from the raw data. 09/17

Some useful links to my future research.