[Tig] color in microscopy

[Rob Lingelbach]

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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