A couple of weeks ago I mentioned an exciting result from a freshly-minted PhD in our lab. I can’t really say much about it, still, but here is an artist’s impression of what got us so excitable (‘stricken’, maybe?).
I am still completely smitten with the beauty of what it is actually telling us.
Two Cultures? Huh. This is art and science, together in perfect harmony.
Who is the artist?
Modesty forbids.
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I see what you’ve done: you’ve put the sperm whale (top of figure) into sperm whale myoglobin! Kendrew would certainly have been impressed…
Tiny sperm whale and bowl of pertunias found in electron density map?
“Oh no not again”?
I used to get gels like that as well. Except I never managed to work out how to turn the acrylamide that colour. It’s why I gave up and turned to statistics.
I also see a moorhen’s foot.
Congratulation, Richard… even better than Arp … a liitle bit fauvistic (compared with Arp) 🙂
It’s amazing what you can do with Coot and Photoshop.
Originally, I am a X-ray diffraction oriented chemist… I believe, but it is an atavism :-), that nothing is sure in chemistry excepted molecular structure derived from single crystal X-ray diffraction…. and to see electronic densities is comparable, in my atavistic view, with observation of reality itself.
Regarding your artistic instruments: I think if Burroughs used a shotgun to create art, you are free to use Coot and Photoshop, even anything else :-).