If there is anything new under the sun it has to be this – and delightfully, it’s the domain of the moon. This spectacular table by Adrien Segal captures tidal data collected from San Francisco Bay for the duration of a full lunar cycle, 29 days in April and May of 2006.
If there is anything new under the sun it has to be this - and delightfully, it's the domain of the moon. This spectacular table by Adrien Segal captures tidal data collected from San Francisco Bay for the duration of a full lunar cycle, 29 days in April and May of 2006. I'm rarely rendered speechless (silence doesn't make for a great blog, does it?), but I really can't beat the beauty and wonder of Segal's sculpture, so I won't even try. Visit Segal's website for more spectacularly innovative sculptures derived from water and climate data. Her work is currently on display at the Oakland Museum of California's exhibit, Above and Below: Our Changing Bay, through February 23, 2014.
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Kalliopi Monoyios is an independent science illustrator. She has illustrated several popular science books including Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within, and Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True. Find her at www.kalliopimonoyios.com. Follow Kalliopi Monoyios on Twitter
