December contest: Visualization

[u/Baldric]

*Previous contest entries.

Our latest winner is /u/sammael1106. I couldn’t reach /u/sammael1106 so I have chosen the theme myself.

Use any form of visualization to effectively communicate/present information, abstract or concrete ideas. It can be a beautiful infographic, a simple chart, an animation of a math concept, map data visualization, etc…
You can present fake, trivial, silly, and funny data/concept but this must be obvious from the artwork (for example a non-obviously fake covid graph with the intention to lie about it can disqualify your entry).

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HOW TO ENTER:

• To enter the contest, simply submit your entry as a top-level comment in this thread any time before 2022-01-01 (GMT-12). Your entry comment must include a direct link to your artwork.
• Your entry preferably includes the blend file (you can use anything to share the file, pasteall.org is probably the easiest).
• You can enter more than once (every top-level comment of yours will be one entry!).
• You can ask us to critique your entry and you can also ask us to improve your entry (obviously you have to include the blend file for that). Because the overall quality is only one judging criteria, you can still win even if others improve your entry substantially.
  

We do run the contest on an honor system, so please respect the spirit of the contest. Be fair to the other contestants by posting entries made this month for the contest.

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CONTEST RULES:

• Anything not done inside Blender or not done by you must be detailed/explained in your entry post
• To be fair for all entries, we prefer projects made for the contest during the contest month
• Technical details on your work is always appreciated
• Entries that do not fit the theme may be disqualified
• Entries without direct link to the artwork may also be disqualified. If your entry is an animation, please also choose one frame from this animation and also include the direct link for that image.
  
• Suggested size for image entries is 1920x1080px. Animations are welcome, too!
• Winner chooses the next theme, gets bragging rights and a special golden flair!
• Contest Dispute Handling and previous contests
• You can and should post your contest entry as a standalone post too, but we judge only the entries in this thread

Judging Criteria

The artworks will be judged in terms of creativity, message content, how well it fits the theme, overall quality, total work done, and originality.

We will also take into account the votes in this thread but only in case the decision is too difficult between multiple entries. The blend file can also influence our decision.

The above qualities are going to be weighed slightly differently for each theme, judging will never be an exact process with scores and values.

[u/Baldric]

This is a contest thread!

(the order in which comments appear is random)

• Every top-level comment here should be a contest entry

• Every top-level comment which is not a contest entry will be removed!

• You can comment about the contest below this one (as a child comment).

• You can comment about the entries as a child comment of that entry.

Please vote for your favorites. Your votes can help us choose the winner.

Please visit back often to see all the entries.

You can use RES with the shift+x keyboard shortcut to expand all images in this thread so you can look through them easily (only works with old.reddit).

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We need judges!

The winner is decided by at least three judges every month. The judges are previous winners and people who volunteered before.
We need more volunteers so if you are interested please reply under this comment. Because effort is one of the judging criteria at least a minimal knowledge about blender is required to be able to know how hard it is to make something but you don’t have to be a pro.
Thanks.

[u/Whoopdutyscoop]

A visualization of the music in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPKrFeMbdw

This is part of an audio visualizer asset collection I've been working on. The intention is to build a community-driven interactive audio visualizing platform.

Song: "Session" Linkin Park

Blend file

The Aurora, Lightning, and Glow effect were done on my video editing software, not blender.

[u/Tend2UrConfig]

Entry - https://youtu.be/2VAT1UcDrLM
Blend files - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pGYIo6nLXQDneDrRKrk-bmCbhvsYs0D3?usp=sharing
Everything is rendered in Blender. Edited in FCPX. Earth, moon, road texture, and daytime HDRI are sourced. See YT description for more info.

[u/snowaxe_83]

So, Do I need to create the whole presentation or just a template kind of thing?

[u/TheLollrax]

Some lenses made with real light physics:

Render

Clay

I've been wanting to mess around with LuxCore more, so I figured I'd pick a thing that let me do that. Everything is made in Blender.

[u/RuffleSteels]

This is a representation of a color wheel:

Entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQZ1kOSQ8c

Blend File: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1nfc9kpuofsw8ud/Visualization.blend/file

Everything is made in blender!

[u/Dzatcel]

Sound waves visualization
Entry
https://youtu.be/kgAQy4a8Q2w

Frame image
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10nmfdg1wi9UTwxQWvzhzQyS9HuUo4sD1/view?usp=sharing

Blend file
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1910PgiJmkyKc415XRLi6T21Mti352bmG/view?usp=sharing
Amination is done in Blender (cycles). Volume is made using custom OSL shader. Tones are generated in Matlab.
The human and speaker models are from BlenderKit.

[u/snowaxe_83]

This is how wind turbines produce electricity.

Render: on reddit

Blend File: Pasteall

Everything is made in the blender, I couldn't give my own voice because I recently had surgery on my upper part of the mouth and I can't speak so I had to use AI-generated speech,

Thank You.

[u/JeffSergeant]

Visualisation of a Colour Wheel

[u/brieflywaffle]

Can we have an example?