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most citedThe Aesthetics of Astrophysics: How to Make Appealing Color-Composite Images that Convey the Science

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astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

Holding the Cosmos in Your Hand: Developing 3D Modeling and Printing Pipelines for Communications and Research

Kimberly Kowal Arcand, Sara Rose Price, Megan Watzke

Three-dimensional (3D) visualization has opened up a Universe of possible scientific data representations. 3D printing has the potential to make seemingly abstract and esoteric dat…

astro-ph.IM2019

Touching the stars: improving NASA 3D printed data sets with blind and visually impaired audiences

Kimberly Kowal Arcand, April Jubett, Megan Watzke +3

Astronomy has been an inherently visual area of science for millenia, yet a majority of its significant discoveries take place in wavelengths beyond human vision. There are many pe…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Walking Through an Exploded Star: Rendering Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A into Virtual Reality

Kimberly K. Arcand, Elaine Jiang, Sara Price +3

NASA and other astrophysical data of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant have been rendered into a three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) program, the fir…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 11 cited

The Aesthetics of Astrophysics: How to Make Appealing Color-Composite Images that Convey the Science

Travis A. Rector, Zoltan G. Levay, Lisa M. Frattare +2

Astronomy has a rich tradition of using color photography and imaging, for visualization in research as well as for sharing scientific discoveries in formal and informal education…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1 cited

Processing Color in Astronomical Imagery

Kimberly K. Arcand, Megan Watzke, Travis Rector +3

Every year, hundreds of images from telescopes on the ground and in space are released to the public, making their way into popular culture through everything from computer screens…