28 Sep 2025 4 min read science

Sci Art September

Kristin Henry has been providing SciArtSeptember prompts each year. I incorporated all of the prompts into a single sketch this year.

A digital sketch packed with scientific concepts. With a teal and yellow themed, there is a galaxy in the center, neurons talking across, an Apollonian gasket of viruses, coral with algae that has orbiting bodies including a vesicle and notation for an inertial vector. There is a dampening wave, a chaotic graph, graphite lattice, dna, diffusion and more. The bottom has a tesselation tiling with a sunrise lighting. Lichen with little red dots grows on one of the tiles. In the left corner a representation of the Ishango bone stands with marks for numbers. Fluid flow moves across and around a vesicle and symbols for permutations and then the cycle of a flower are overlayed.

1. Fluid 2. Coral 3. Inertia 4. Diffusion 5. Skeleton 6. Growth 7. Virus 8. Permutation 9. Element 10. Algae 11. Budding 12. Transcription 13; Motif 14. Fractal 15. Bone 16. Chaos 17. Vector 18. Lichen 19. Bloom 20. Orbit 21. Tiles 22. Random 23. Vesicle 24. Synapse 25. Calm 26. Convergence 27. Symbiosis 28. Tessellation 29. Scattering 30. Accrete

A full page annotated vesrion is here. And a smaller version is below:

CSS-Only Image Annotations

sciArtSeptember challenge image with 30 interactive prompt locations

A special thanks to Joe Crawford for helping me figure out annotations on an image.