This piece was created for the JILA lab for their paper "Tweezer-programmable 2D quantum walks in a Hubbard-regime lattice" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01204.pdf
JILA have used it extensively in various presentations and promotional materials.
It was entirely made in Blender using Geometry Nodes, Materials and Compositing. Read more about the creation process here:
https://www.defaultinteractive.co.uk/post/rendering-a-slick-scientific-image