[HN Gopher] Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in th...
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       Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in the style of Piet
       Mondrian
        
       Author : crescit_eundo
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-07-23 17:37 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.chemistryworld.com)
        
       | crescit_eundo wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/Kgh2S
        
       | lmz wrote:
       | The publication, with more pics:
       | https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202403754
        
       | benrutter wrote:
       | This is a really neat way of visualising molecules!
       | 
       | Just to be incredibly boring and pedantic though- I love
       | mondrian's works and he's an artist who constantly experimented.
       | It's kind of a shame that he's often thought of and talked about
       | as if all his paintings were random grids of random colours.
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       | Even his really grid based paintings (which to be fair is like
       | the whole second half if his career) often do interesting things
       | with outlines and space that make them much more interesting than
       | random grids:
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       | - https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian#/media/Fi...
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       | - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Piet_Mon...
        
       | PopAlongKid wrote:
       | I was surprised that such a distinctive word shares its root with
       | words for diverse things - philosophy and minerals, along with
       | the topic of this thread.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Por...
        
       | emporas wrote:
       | Very nice idea.
       | 
       | Not sure how the paintings correspond to the molecular structure,
       | but it may be helpful to chemistry engineers who have some better
       | intuition about molecules than me.
        
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