special section of leonardo transactions
Technologies of Scientific Visualization
guest editors Chris Robinson, Brigitte Nerlich and Chris Toumey
During the past 15 years or so, a community of scholars Annamaria Carusi, Andrew Balmer and Brigitte Nerlich in the arts and humanities has examined issues of organized the multidisciplinary conference Images epistemology in scientific imaging of nanoscale objects and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and and explored the question: How do technology and Trust, generously supported by the European Science aesthetics affect the relationship between an atom or Foundation, to explore these issues. The conference took a molecule and an image of the atom or molecule? place at the Norrköping campus of Linköping University Recently this community reached out to scholars in Sweden, September 2012. While the conference examining other methods of scientific visualization such offered many excellent presentations, we present as images of outer space from the Hubble Telescope and here a selection of papers that illustrate the value and brain imaging. the challenges of the three most salient themes that emerged: color, scale and technology.
Contents
Chris Toumey, Brigitte Nerlich and Chris Robinson: Technologies of Scientific Visualization 62 Philip Moriarty: Visualizing the “Invisible” 64 Kathrin Friedrich: Achromatic Reasoning—On the Relation of Gray and Scale in Radiology 66 Liv Hausken: The Visual Culture of Brain Imaging 68 Lars Lindberg Christensen, Douglas Pierce-Price and Olivier Hainaut: Determining the Aesthetic Appeal of Astronomical Images 70 Thomas Turnbull: Scientific Visualisation in Practice: Replicating Experiments at Scale 72 Ingeborg Reichle: Images in Art and Science and the Quest for a New Image Science 74 Catherine Allamel-Raffin: Interpreting Artworks, Interpreting Scientific Images 76 Sky Gross, Shai Lavi and Edmond J. Safra: Visibly Dead: On Making Brain Death Believable 78 Gunnar E. Höst and Gustav Bohlin: Engines of Creationism? Intelligent Design, Machine Metaphors and Visual Rhetoric 80
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