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Zhao Pan, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, is co-creator of one of 20 images in the finals of the 2022 edition of Science Exposed, a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
This powerful photograph, produced with collaborator Floriane Weyer of the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, shows colorful droplets suspended from fibres crossed at a variety of angles.
The beautiful image was captured during research - inspired by huge droplets Pan observed hanging from the tips of leaves on cypress trees - into how the angles at which fibers cross affect the volume of droplets they can suspend.
Fraser King, a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Waterloo, is also a finalist for an image of a snapshot in time of a deep learning neural network’s complex brain for calculating precipitation.