[Tig] color in microscopy
Rob Lingelbach
rob at colorist.org
Sun Feb 17 13:37:09 PST 2008
On Feb 17, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Dominic Case wrote:
> 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.
are we sure that the color is indicating anything besides the
technique and style of the person who applied it? There had to be
decisions made as to saturation, hue, contrast and brightness.
Science and art of course aren't exclusive domains, each can include
the other.
> 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.
there's still a psychological response to scientific images --and this
response is modulated by color- .. which can be offered and recognized
as art. I'm thinking of images of the earth photographed from
spacecraft, for example.
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Rob Lingelbach
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