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by Rick Doble
From a past exhibit: snowflakes with added color
based on the landmark work by W. A. Bentley
who was a pioneer of photomicrography and who
invented a method for photographing frozen ice crystals in 1885.
Widely used by teachers and reported in the media -- see citations at the end of this presentation.
About My Methods
My own method for adding color to these black and
white photos was to scan them and then separate
each image into 16 shades of gray. Then I
substituted a color for each shade of gray using the
palette ability of GIF files. This was a technique I
had perfected with the photographs of Muybridge
10 years earlier using a Radio Shack computer in
the 1980s.
When I started out, I substituted a dark color for a
dark shade of gray and a light color for a light
shade of gray. Later I became more adventurous
and played with the colors in a way that would
bring out the structure even more.
http://www.wcbs880.com/
Major Announcement: Internet Minute
We're dreaming of a White Christmas, and while Nature may or may not cooperate
with our dream this year - we can see snowflakes as we never have on the net.
Rick Doble is an Internet Artist - An E-Artist, so to speak. Have you ever tried to
look at snow-flakes. It isn't easy, because they melt so quickly. Each little crystal is
believed to be unique - the molecules of moistures freezing with particular beauty
every time around its host mote of airborne dust. There are still photos, and
animations of snowflakes in Rick's online exhibit. It's a nice little thing to check
out, to get you into the spirit of snow this season.
SNOW CRYSTALS
An exhibit of photomicrographs
by Wilson A. Bentley
Presented by the Schwerdtfeger Library
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/library/
Link to Doble's snowflake exhibit:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/library/bentley.htm
Earth/matriX
Science in Ancient Artwork and Science Today
http://www.earthmatrix.com/
"A Critical Commentary on Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry"
By Charles William Johnson.
Link to Doble's snowflake site:
http://www.earthmatrix.com/links.html