About our Logo

The logo presents a juvenile Japanese macaque (snow monkey, Macaca fuscata) standing on 3D elliptical mesh with inner sphere, holding a human brain. This is to avoid any confusion arising from ridiculous claims that our logo displays a monkey after sep-pu-ku (or hara-kiri), with her guts out. This is nonsense. We adore monkeys. Our logo symbolizes multidisciplinary nature of our research activities, with special emphasis on neuroscience, behavioral sciences and engineering.
The original monkey photo by Mitsuaki Iwago, Hideko Iwago. The mesh was constructed using the following MATLAB code:

% OMNIRESEARCH, INC. LOGO
% (c) 1999 Omniresearch Inc. All rights reserved.

close all
clear all
hold on;

[x,y,z] = sphere;
[i,j,k] = cylinder(3);
% Inner Surface
s2=surf(3*x, 3*y, (3*z)+6); %2.424
%s3=surf(i./(11*k+1),j./(11*k+1),(11*k)+1);
% Outer Sphere
s4=surf(9*x,6*y,(6*z)+6);

set(s2, 'EdgeColor', 'k', 'FaceColor', 'k')
set(s2, 'LineWidth', 1)

%set(s3, 'EdgeColor', 'g', 'FaceColor', 'none'); 
%set(s3, 'LineWidth', 2)

set(s4, 'EdgeColor', 'r', 'FaceColor', 'none')
set(s4, 'LineWidth', 2)

axis([-6 6 -6 6 0 12]), axis off, grid off;
set(gca, 'DataAspectRatio' , [1 1 1]);
light;
view(-37.5,30);

shading interp;
material shiny;
lighting phong;
set(gcf, 'color', 'w');