Comments on: Science Images that Border on Art http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2012/09/science-images-that-border-on-art/ Where the studio meets the research lab Fri, 17 May 2013 18:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Poppoya http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2012/09/science-images-that-border-on-art/#comment-35 Poppoya Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:24:42 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/?p=234#comment-35 There was a stunning exhibit and website with similar "biochemistry as art" photos called "Critical Crossings", back in the early 2000s. This Smithsonian gallery is a superb extension of "Critical Crossings'" tradition. There was a stunning exhibit and website with similar “biochemistry as art” photos called “Critical Crossings”, back in the early 2000s.

This Smithsonian gallery is a superb extension of “Critical Crossings’” tradition.

]]> By: Kip Hansen http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2012/09/science-images-that-border-on-art/#comment-24 Kip Hansen Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:11:04 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/?p=234#comment-24 False color images -- images in which the colors shown are NOT the actual colors of the object, colors which have been arbitrarily added by the image processor -- should ALWAYS be label as such. Not to do so if scientific fraud. This --> "A false-colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of caffeine crystals." is correctly done. Note that only one image in this article is so labelled. I suspect it is not the only false-color image used. False color images — images in which the colors shown are NOT the actual colors of the object, colors which have been arbitrarily added by the image processor — should ALWAYS be label as such. Not to do so if scientific fraud.

This –> “A false-colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of caffeine crystals.” is correctly done.

Note that only one image in this article is so labelled. I suspect it is not the only false-color image used.

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