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Explosions, mountainside helicopter chases, and gunfights erupting amidst civilian streets punctuate Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's more dramatic moments. But the methodical tactics required to decompress a dangerous situation quietly creates the kind of memorable scenarios that inspire more pride than a well-placed bullet...

January 26, 2012 05:07 PM

Faced with intense scrutiny, investor pressure and the first fiscal year losses for his company in over 25 years, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata once again reiterated plans for the future. Notably that includes making sure Wii U is available globally by the 2012 holiday season...

January 26, 2012 08:56 AM

The Nintendo 3DS has crossed 15 million units sold worldwide since its launch in March 2011, outpacing the early lives of the Wii and DS, yet its publisher is still struggling financially. Nintendo has released its latest quarterly earnings report, where it posted a loss of $623 million for first nine months of its fiscal year (April 2011 through December 2011)...

January 26, 2012 08:30 AM

Over the past decade, the Resident Evil series has changed significantly. Sensing the need to evolve its iconic franchise alongside modern gaming, Capcom made several alterations to the formula, adjusting elements that were in dire need of an upgrade. However as time went on, it became increasingly ...

January 26, 2012 08:16 AM

The makers of Gorilla Glass, used in many touchscreen devices, debuted a thinner, more sensitive glass screen at CES recently. Lighter, more responsive smartphones? Yes, please!

January 26, 2012 06:10 AM

I have always thought no connections existed between art and subjects like biology, mathematics and chemistry. I thought these subjects to be independent of one another. It was not until I read about the early experimentation of American artist Charles Csuri or the artwork of Joseph Scheer that I realized I had been creating art in classes like biology and chemistry. Charles Csuri used wave functions to digitally modify the reproduction of landscape, while Scheer used a scanner to scan the bodies of moths. When I first saw the artwork of Scheer it made me think of Lepidopterists, scientists that studies butterflies and moths, or even a collector.

But my favorite piece is Canogar hide 2 by Daniel Canogar. The portrait was created by inscribing many different fingerprints digitally; the prints blurred and overlapped creating only partial prints. Today fingering printing is one of the top methods in identifying someone. The fingerprint is so unique that you don’t share it with anyone else. However in Canogar’s piece he seems to have created a grand collage consisting of many different people;  all the prints are blurred together, however, becoming an inseparable and unidentifiable piece of work. The work is the extreme contrast of what the fingerprint represents in our society today. Our fingerprint is our own individual identifier, but by making it unidentifiable, Canogar has made it anonymous. Scheer does the same thing in his pieces of work. The scientist or the collector usually took the moth itself or pictures of the moth and labeled it so that they could identify it; here Scheer reproduced the pictures but not the names, we are left with little other information but what we see on the page or in the picture. These artists have taken processes of identification and made them anonymous in their artwork.

I began to think of examples from my own life in which scientific processes could be made into art. One of the more prominent examples that comes to mind, is one of my biology labs. In this particular lab, we were looking at different types of cells.The cell had been stained with different florescent dyes. Each part of the cell could absorb a different dye because it’s density. We then used a confocal microscope connected to a computer to view the cell. The microscope would shine a light of different wave lengths, and which ever dye reacted to that wave length would reflect back a color and then we would photograph it with a computer program. This would be  one repeatedly at different wavelengths to capture the different densities of the cell. After we were finished with this process, we would recreate the cell by overlapping the different photographs we had taken. The finished product created a beautiful 3D picture of  the cell, with many colors over lapping, that looked it been created digitally on computer.  Many scientists display their work at competitions like the  Small World Microtography Competition. Scientist submit the pictures of  their as forms of art1. It lead me to think that there may be many more scientific process that we are not exposed to that have the capacity to produce beautiful artwork.

Sources

Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

1.http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/11/confocal_image_of_cochlea_wins.php

January 26, 2012 03:28 AM

With very few Wii releases on the horizon (Rhythm Heaven Fever, Mario Party 9 and Xenoblade are pretty much it), our minds can't help but wander to the possibilities presented by Nintendo's next generation of home consoles, the Wii U. Pair this with anticipation over the revival of the Kid Icarus se...

January 26, 2012 02:00 AM

Welcome back to another mind-bending edition of Nintendo Voice Chat! This week we've got the one and only Papa Koopa, Rich George, Audrey "Birthday Girl" Drake (ME!), Samuel "The Man with the Plan" Claiborn, and Jose "What up, 1-Up?" Otero...

January 26, 2012 01:35 AM

IGN rated Batman: Arkham City as a 9.5, but it didn't win IGN Game of the Year. In fact, it didn't even get nominated for IGN Game of the Year. Internally, this means not enough IGN editors thought Batman: Arkham City outclassed the competition to get the overall nod. Externally, a lot of Batman fan...

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