Client: Professor Marc Dryer
Year: 2020
Media: Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
A cover for a science journal should be eye-catching while giving the viewer an idea of what the featured article is about. This exercise involved creating a hypothetical journal cover for an article on the Photonic Fence, a promising method of insect control that uses computer vision to identify and track flying insects combined with a laser system to disable or kill them.
References
Academic Sources
Keller MD, Norton BJ, Farrar DJ, Rutschman P, Marvit M, Makagon A. 2020. Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight. Scientific Reports 10:14795. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71824-y.
Visual References
Acarologiste. July 5, 2016. Culex female lateral. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed November 29, 2020. Available from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culex_female_lateral.png
Berger, J. n.d. Western Encephalitis Mosquito: Culex tarsalis Coquillett, 1896. Invasive.org. Accessed November 29, 2020. Available from https://www.invasive.org/browse/subthumb.cfm?sub=57024&cat=113
Biogents USA [@BiogentsUSA]. May 30, 2020. Not every #mosquito with striped legs is a #tigermosquito! An example is #Culex tarsalis, also known as the Western Encephalitis Mosquito. Twitter. Accessed November 29, 2020. Available from https://twitter.com/BiogentsUSA/status/1266744181449535488
Bryant, PJ. n.d. Western Encephalitis Mosquito. Natural History of Orange County, California. Accessed November 29, 2020. Available from http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/diptera/Culex%20tarsalis.htm
