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PROJECT INFO

Year: 2015-2016
Role: Scientific Illustrator
Client: Michael Tryantafillou (MIT)
Press: PopScience
Award: Finalist Illustration

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THE C-START PHENOMENA

In 2016, I collaborated with MIT professor Michael Tryantafillou in order to design an illustration that was able to explain the “C-Start” phenomena. When threatened, small fish exhibit a carefully choreographed and precisely timed escape motion: the C-start. By bending into a ‘C’ shape, they entrap with their body a large mass of water, which is then pushed downstream with a tail flip, imparting impressive accelerations to the fish. The central piece is a hand-sketched fish that seamlessly merges with the title, emphasising the role of the "C". It captures the exact moment when the fish, threatened, bends itself into a 'C' shape entrapping with its body a ball of water. 

TEAM:
Michael Tryantafillou,
Mattia Gazzola,
Margherita Gazzola