[HN Gopher] Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind t...
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Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope
Author : pseudolus
Score : 63 points
Date : 2024-06-18 13:45 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nature.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
| tromp wrote:
| Much more of such beautiful imagery can be found at Nikon's Small
| World Competition that's been running for 50 years [1].
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| [1]
| https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photomicrography-c...
| mistrial9 wrote:
| LOL - a real story from graduate lands.. At a university in
| "Holland" .. a real ordinary grad student, whose funding is not
| certain, has data for a PhD project... such beautiful data! could
| make amazing art! an artist-oriented person says "what about
| doing some art with this data?" Reaction?
|
| frozen deadly stare.. immediately stopped discussing any details
| of that data.. careful check of screen logout and network
| security over the next days. That data is guarded.. no one can
| copy any, look at it without authorization.. it can not be
| reprinted in any medium for any reason at risk to this graduate
| student losing their status.
|
| The artist is amazed, but within hours never thinks of it again..
| That graduate student spends the next year+ guarding that data
| and filing reports and status with their PhD supervisor and lab
| admins.
|
| source: biotech, true story
| verisimi wrote:
| I don't get the story... Why is the student so zealous in
| guarding the imagery?
| IanCal wrote:
| A possibility is in trying to make sure they get their
| publications and nothing gets scooped.
| amelius wrote:
| I guess the coloring is faked to make these images look better
| (or in the case of electron microscopy to have color at all).
| Would an AI be able to produce these colors given an EM image?
| Etheryte wrote:
| I mean, this is covered in the first paragraph of the article,
| and then elaborated on further down.
| JustBreath wrote:
| Great photos, especially being colored by hand.
|
| I'd love to see these in a museum with background information
| about the subjects and stories like the raspberry fungus.
| cchi_co wrote:
| Good idea to make it like since art instolation
| nyc111 wrote:
| I wonder if there are no colors at that scale
| hermitcrab wrote:
| The false colouring is mainly due to the fact that they are
| using beams of electrons, not visible light. But a typical
| virus is ~100nm ( https://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-are-
| viruses/ ) and the wave length of green light ~500 nm. So I
| guess it isn't really meaningful to ask 'what colour is a
| virus'.
| cchi_co wrote:
| Fascinating and unique way to merge science and creativity.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Beautiful images.
|
| If you have an SLR/DSLR camera you can buy a macro lens and a
| flash and get some surprisingly good close ups of insects - with
| all sorts of details you can't see with the naked eye. You can
| safari in your own garden or nearby land. It opens up a whole new
| world. You'll need an electron microscope for viruses though!
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