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6th February 2013, 12:16 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hiKgDOXlPfk
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6119/518.full
"Despite centuries of study, scientists are still largely baffled by the heart's complex electrical choreography, says physicist Fernando Cucchietti, who helped produce the video. When faced with the challenge of presenting Alya Red to a general audience through video, he says, "It took a lot of work to get a script that was engaging, but still scientifically deep enough for an expert eye to see interesting details."
The most challenging part was to get the heart fibers in the image above to move in a realistic way, Cucchietti says. At one point, he says, the animation showed the electrical currents moving backwards. "We had to keep going back to the scientists—did we mess something up?"
"We wanted to create a sense of wonder at the complexity" of the heart itself, he says. The awe wasn't lost on the judges. "I was literally blown away," says Michael Reddy. "After the first time I watched the video, I thought, "I've just changed the way I thought about a heart."
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6119/518.full
"Despite centuries of study, scientists are still largely baffled by the heart's complex electrical choreography, says physicist Fernando Cucchietti, who helped produce the video. When faced with the challenge of presenting Alya Red to a general audience through video, he says, "It took a lot of work to get a script that was engaging, but still scientifically deep enough for an expert eye to see interesting details."
The most challenging part was to get the heart fibers in the image above to move in a realistic way, Cucchietti says. At one point, he says, the animation showed the electrical currents moving backwards. "We had to keep going back to the scientists—did we mess something up?"
"We wanted to create a sense of wonder at the complexity" of the heart itself, he says. The awe wasn't lost on the judges. "I was literally blown away," says Michael Reddy. "After the first time I watched the video, I thought, "I've just changed the way I thought about a heart."