I got this email today:

Hi Chris, Christopher, and Scott,

We are in the final 6 days of the autoPACK HIV Visualization contest.

Here is a movie with killer zoom effects created by a Max user

Watch the movie

Later tonight I will be releasing fancy Lipid Bilayers... part of the philosophy of the software and contest is that autoPACK is forever dynamic with new models and features being added all of the time, so people will have the chance to add some fancy bells and whistles in the 11th hour.

Thanks,
Graham Johnson PhD
UCSF Fellow

For a discussion of the relative sizes of HIV and red blood cells, see these two blog articles:

• Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10^-7 HIV Virus
• Autodesk Gallery Powers of Design Exhibit: 10^-6 Red Blood Cells

The autoPACK HIV Visualization contest runs until March 18. You can learn more about it at: autopack.cgsociety.org. For those who wish to learn more about Project Sci-Viz:

// Visit Project Scit-Viz for 3ds Max on Autodesk Labs

Competition is alive in the lab (but not for much longer).