InformationWeek featured an interesting project in which artists Artists Alex Dragulescu and Julian Hodgson accepted a commission to create visualizations of computer viruses.

Using pieces of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses, and subroutines associated with the bane of a security team’s existence, they analyzed the data by frequency, density, and groupings.

Algorithms were then developed and the artists mapped the data to the inputs of the algorithms, which then generated virtual 3-D entities.

The patterns and rhythms found in the data gave shape to the configuration of the artificial organisms, and the result was a series of images called Malwarez.

See the rest of the gallery, along with descriptions of each image here.