Client work: Visualizing Density, Having Fun with Mass and Volume

Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Jess in Uncategorized

Now this one was really fun to do for Rasmussen College. Density is a concept that can be hard to conceptualize. You can have to bricks of something the same size, yet one is 10 lbs and the other 1,000 lbs. So I created a standard format to help visualize the density of all kinds of stubstances, from the lease dense stuff in the universe, Interstellar Medium, to the most dense, a Black Hole.

After getting trashed on reddit (as expected) I made a few corrections. So here it is. If you support my work please Digg and retweet and spread the scientific goodness.

Tags: client work, infographic, science, visualization

2 Comments

Anna Lee Court, April 1, 2010:

I really like this one, Jess. I like, too, the comments on the wieghts — like bread with jam or your average cat. Nice work.
Mike, May 1, 2010:

I like the concept, but I would make the “representative” object more suggestive. I had to keep reminding myself which amorphous cube was constant volume/mass.

Something like one of those triangular weights for the variable mass and a balloon or blimp or something stretchy for the variable volume would be cool.