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This is THE animation that unlocked the doors of Art for me. It is precisely the opposite of what I would have expected would work in an Art context. Real-time speed model of how your cells copy DNA. Accurate science circa 2002 when I created it.pic.twitter.com/dSTgoxHPIf
I was commissioned to create this DNA animation by HHMI's @BIOINTERACTIVE for a five-part TV series "DNA", released 2003 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix. Produced by a truly accomplished and remarkable documentary company @windfall_films.
This DNA Replication animation has been presented as 'Art' in many galleries around the world, including @MuseumModernArt, @Guggenheim, @CentrePompidou and dozens of other Art venues around the world.
Unexpected...and engaging audiences who don't think science is for them!
The first time my animations were exhibited as Art was @ACMI in my home town Melbourne, 2004.
'Transfigure': https://2015.acmi.net.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2004/transfigure/ …
I was thrilled to be included alongside my digital Artist hero Chris Cunningham and his poetic techno-fetish Bjork video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI2J2SQ528 …
Of course it is not accurate science. At that level, thermal jiggling, chance events, errors, correcting errors happens. Your work gives a misleading impression of what is really going on. Similar problems as animations of molecular motors.https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/science/watch-proteins-do-the-jitterbug.html …
Actually these models do reflect our best understanding at the time and are based on published research, but it also has been created to be watchable and interpretable by non-expert humans.
No, they do not reflect our best understanding at the time. We have known about thermal motion since 1827 and DNA proofreading since 1972. The fact that you state that they have been made to be "watchable and interpretable" by laypeople is an admission of guilt.
The structures are all derived from Xray crystallography and interactions between molecules from various other forms of data. No, I am not depicting the stochastic dynamics or molecular density because if I did you wouldn't be able to witness the DNA Replisome in action.
Ultimately this is a visual interpretation of a molecular world that is very far away from our normal human perception. As a visualisation it is designed to show you salient moments for how the mechanism works.
One animation where I strived to convey stochastic brownian behaviour was Apoptosis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR80Huxp4y8&t= …
That was absolutely fantastic. I always thought molecular biology education was too andropomorphic: visualization like this comes closer to appreciating the wonder of its physical basis.
Amazing, bit i dont understand it :(
Hopefully the narrated version helps understanding:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPcT1uUZiE&frags=pl%2Cwn …
The sounds also are great
I wil be talking about molecular sound design by @ftetaz later this week...
I’ve always wanted to see what this would look like with stochastic diffusion of the molecules via Brownian motion. Is that something that would be possible to depict?
The problem is the vast differences in speed between different aspects of chemical reaction and dynamics. Femto-, pico-, nano-, micro-, milliseconds are all relevant for showing different features of molecular behaviour. Visual compromise will happen somewhere...
And perhaps pointlessly impossible to achieve given the human visual system's propensity to smooth over its own deficits. Like time shifts and saccades etc
I have been showing this to my students. You were the creator!!! 
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There is a screen in a hallway of my University, which has been showing this animation non-stop for at least 7 years now. Every time I walked by, I had to stop and watch it for at least one minute 
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