Figure 2 from Nature paper.

Figure 1 from Nature paper.

Volume rendering of 3D simulation.

Volume rendering by Kwan-Liu Ma.

(Can't get this at higher resolution.)

This is from a paper just about to be published, co-authored by NC State undergraduate student Samantha Shaw.

This is an imaging technique developed by a NC State computer science student Laura Tateosian. She uses simulated paint strokes with properties that represent attributes of the underlying data.