Drew Whitehouse

Surface Electrostatic Potentials of the LGIC Extracellular Pentamer Models. Work done with Shoba Ranganathan (ANU JCSMR). Part of an animation, rendering and animated using Side Effects Houdini. [More available]
Transport of Ions across Membrane Ionic Channels. Work done with Shin-Ho Chung (ANU Chemistry). This is a still from an 11 minute animation. Software used for animation and rendering was Side Effects Houdini.
This is an ATP sythase complex, approx 13000 fully raytraced (with shadowing) spheres. It was faster to render this many spheres using a parallel renderer on the Fujitsu AP1000 than to use an SGI 210/VGX with GL harware assisted rendering. Work done with Frank Gibson, JCSMR.
Volume rendering of the gas density in a simulation of the formation of an accretion disk around a black hole like object. Work done with Gustav Meglicki, ARP.
These images were made for Malcolm Sambridge and Jean Braun of the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences and were published in Nature. They illustrate a method called natural neighbour interpolation. To see more of these images and read about the technique and it's uses go to their pages.
The classic UNC MRI dataset with maps tweaked to highlight the folds in the brain. This was produced for a documentary series (titled something like "Models of the Brain") to be aired on SBS later this year (95). (update: it aired and I missed all but one of the shows - damn!) Click for a bigger, slightly different version.
Volume rendering of a diamond grown on a tungsten tip and imaged using scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM). Collaboration with John Howard (ANU RSPhysSE) and the Melbourne University Micro Analytical Research Center (MARC).
STIM imaging of a pollen grain. (collaborators as above)
Another STIM image of a pollen grain, this time revealing the interior structure using volume rendering.
Photo-realistic rendering of clouds and atmospheric effects. This picture was computed in a two stage rendering process involving an finite difference like illumination phase followed by a raytracing phase. The first was done on a CM2, the second on a CM5.