Toulouse conference poster (5th of May 2012)

Poster, Toulouse, Workshop

Monday, 7th of May 2012, is the opening day of the workshop on New Challenges in Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter. 4 I am one of the invited speakers and while I am writing this text in room C 254 of the F1 department in Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, I am thinking that I shouldn't be writing it. I should perhaps additionally think about the lecture which I prepared. I mean, prepared to some extent, at least... There's still time for the weekend.

However, the motive for this post is not my lecture Charge distributions and electrostatic interactions in viruses but graphics I made for the workshop. The poster I made is shown in the image above. And this post is a story about it.

Poster, background

Graphically interesting part of the poster is shown in the image above. This is the PovRay rendering of a system similar to the self-avoiding random walk on a lattice. Graphical decorations were chosen so to reflect pieces of the "story" of the workshop.

For example, blue frame on some charges is an elements of design of CECAM (Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire) logo, and >> CECAM is one of the organizing institutions of the workshop. Colors of the square network below the "polymer" (polyelectrolyte) are combined colors from the logos of CECAM and >> COMPLOIDS, the other sponsor of the workshop.

Note (above) how I simulated the blur effect of the camera, so that one of the monomers with the frame is in clear focus of the image. In PovRay one can produce such effects by using a special definition of the "camera" which includes parameters focal_point, aperture and blur_samples.

poster, squares

The story of the poster started quite differently. I imagined some simple, "mesh" design. One of the first ideas in this direction is shown in the image above. Two-dimensional.

poster, squares

And a bit more of two-dimensional stuff with shadows and randomly deleted squares (above). Somehow fragile and weak.

poster, 3D

The image above shows the whole "system", some kind of polyelectrolyte adsorbed on the surface.

Expect new post after the Toulouse.

UPDATE: (10th of April, 2015.) A book "Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter" (Pan Stanford Publishing, CRC Press) containing contributions from the participants of the conference has been published. Its cover (below) features graphics I prepared for the conference.

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