... representation realism rendering performativity mimesis ...

... materializing sonic indices causal vagueness spatial magnetization causalism rendering ...

... ethnographic methods scientific representation rendering affects in science haptic and kinesthetic dexterities biopolitics ...

... in scientific visualization and pedagogy. By foregrounding the performative, gestural, and affectively charged nature of model building, it explores how embodied practices of scientific representation can be better understood in the idiom “rendering.” The chapter also outlines how, by tuning...

... a kind of haptic and kinesthetic mode of vision in their work of rendering and interpreting molecular structures. This chapter introduces the concept of “haptic creativity” to account for the embodied and improvisational skills model builders rely on in their work. three-dimensional models...

... manipulation of virtual, computer graphic models on-screen. This chapter argues that it is the tangibility and interactivity of these various media that have enabled modelers to cultivate a kind of haptic and kinesthetic mode of vision in their work of rendering and interpreting molecular structures...

... This chapter delves into the embodied nature of molecular modeling, to examine how seeing, feeling, and knowing are intertwined with the work of crafting molecular models. It offers a phenomenological account of the role of the modeler’s imagination, judgment, and intuition in rendering...