Articles on non-medical illustration topics, here on the Medimagery Website:
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The Gift That Grew on Her – Animating Diane Sherry Case Drawings
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
When actress, author & screenwriter Diane Sherry Case saw the an Instagram feed of the little animations I enjoy making with my kids, she saw potential for a collaboration between our creative energies and reached out to me. Likewise, I found pleasure in Diane’s sweet irony in lines. The playful
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Kabbalah Creation Story
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
The Kaballah Creation Story is so beautiful and simple. It explains so many of the feelings daily life brings; the longing for interconnectedness and the faith that each encounter one experiences contains a unique spark of divine perfection. I created this extremely simple sketch to capture some of the magical
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The Mystery of Wrinkled Icicles: Solved
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
It's still cold here in the Midwest and not yet through our arctic winter, but with all the cold has come this beautiful array of icicles not yet melting. I have just learned that icicles are smooth if they are made from distilled water. And they are rippled if the
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Another Artist Seeking Patterns in Nature?
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
Louie Schwartzberg is an filming artist who captures patterns. Because I spend time in nature, photographing the patterns I see, I have loved his high and slow-motion time-lapse photography, and his vision. He says he learned to create it when he was young, patiently working for an entire month to
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The Pull to the Countryside
Medimagery Medical Illustration, Topics Outside Medical Illustration
Centralized Healthcare. Drawing Physicians to Rural America with the AHA. Written & illustrated by Laura Maaske, MSc.BMC, Medical Illustrator & Medical Animator| e-Textbook Design This October 1st opened enrollment of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA), which is the most sweeping social change for Americans since the Social Security Act
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Flipping the Medical School Classroom
General Medical Illustration Topics, Topics Outside Medical Illustration
Was your medical training all you had hoped it to be? Did you learn as much as you expected or knew you could? Was learning effective, efficient, and fun? Technology is changing the practice of medicine. But it is also changing the way medical students learn, expectations of their potential,
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Science Fiction No Longer: Mind controlled Robotic Limbs
Medimagery Medical Illustration, Topics Outside Medical Illustration
They’re Here! An early September morning, apples ripe out my window. I was speaking with Dr. Albert Chi, a pioneering surgeon for advanced prostheti ...
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You Imagine: Exploring Medical Apps
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
With over 17,000 health and medical apps available in iTunes, and with an average price at around $2.00, iTunes ?Health? and ?Medical? categories are two of the fastest growing sectors of app development. There are health games that offer, for example, quizzes to assess calorie content of various foods. There
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The Opponent-process Theory: about Opposites and Mu
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
In the neural firing of our eyes, there is a duality rather a trichromy in the interpretation of color. Ewald Hering described the opponent-process theory to explain this. Neurons that fire in response to a red object will, in their sudden absence, create the illusion of having seen green; and vice
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Wandering Outwardly on a Fractal
Topics Outside Medical Illustration
Primary experiences describe the general shape of not zooming into a fractal, but rather, zooming out of a fractal, with original experiences feeling more distant, yet ever layered into the wider and wider experiences which come.” –Christopher Vita If experience is like zooming out from a fractal, then perhaps any
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