and distant-looking orbiting and non-orbiting structures

"Single-molecule diffractive imaging with an X-ray free-electron laser. Individual biological molecules will be made to fall through the X-ray beam, one at a time, and their structural information recorded in the form of a diffraction pattern. The pulse will ultimately destroy each molecule, but not before the pulse has diffracted from the undamaged structure. The patterns are combined to form an atomic-resolution image of the molecule." - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Upon meeting his prime visualizer in 1974, Ralph McQuarrie, George Lucas sketched out three of his known quantities, showcasing that design and writing for his upcoming saga was simultaneous. Knowing these forms' shaping was elemental in describing their conflict in written form.

6th Century BC Corinth Comedy. Comedies like these were imported to Athens from other cities. Characters were theives, slaves, drunken old women, plots involved stealing wine, manners, errors. Costumes made some appear gleefully grotesque.

Bioshock's Rapture locale, soon Columbia.

Local model of the area vaporized in first atomic blast. Only surviving building is green roofed structure upper right. Model is hyper-real (the water seems tropical, buildings lack aging) to offer dramatic contrast to the black-and-white images of the blasted remains.

a history.

An illustration and caption from A Model of Visual Motion Processing in Area MT of Primates, Sejnowski and Nowlan's remarkable paper describing basic neural organization across areas of the brain. From Gazzaniga's masterful, first The Cognitive Neurosciences