[Tig] color in microscopy

[Dominic Case]

>If the color is fabricated, then the question would be to what extent they
remain scientific, 
>and to what extent they are art.  

Not necessarily art, and certainly scientific: the colour is used in a
perfectly classical analogue sense: that is, the colour varies in some
measurable quantity to indicate some other quantity.  That is no more "art"
(and no less, I suppose) than the hands on a clock, a graph of the exchange
rate, or a contour map.

If the images are used to express some higher level of signification - such
as "tranquility" or "storm at sea" or "I hate Mondays", then they are art
(regardless of whether the creator, the viewer - or the colorist - attaches
that signification.

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Dominic Case
Atlab Australia
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