(Left) Number 5, Jackson Pollock, 1948

oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on fiberboard

(Right) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Blue Brain Project, 2008

(Right) A computer-generated model produced with IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer shows the thirty million connections between ten thousand neurons in a single neocortical column—arguable the most complex part of a mammal’s brain. The different colors indicate distinctive levels of electrical activity. 

From Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

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