Science Art: StyleGAN2 Example 2, Jan 2020
Click to embiggen Wikimedia Commons’ description of this average-looking guy simply reads: The man in this image does not exist. This face was constructed by […]
Science Art
Science Art: Russ Arasmith Skylab Artwork, date unknown.
Click to embiggen NASA’s Marshall Gallery lists this image as “date unknown,” but since Skylab was crewed from 1973 to 1974, and fell out of […]
Science Art: H.G. Dorsey: Device for Graphically Reproducing Sound Waves, 1912
Click to embiggen slightly A device from the early 20th century to turn sound waves into drawings – creating some of the first waveform illustrations. […]
Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls
Click to embiggen A photo with maybe a little optimism. From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the […]
Science Art: Cephalopodes: Pl. III, 1889.
Click to embiggen Prince Albert I of Monaco was really into marine life, and used the royal yacht as a scientific research vessel. Here, from […]
Science Art: Devonian Marine Organisms, by Aleksandra Arkhipova, 2015
Click to embiggen vastly From the “Scientific Illustration” collection on Wikimedia Commons, where this image of trilobites and prehistoric shellfish has the following in-depth description: […]
Science Art: Albumasar De magnis coniunctionibus, 1515
Click to embiggen Ja’far ibn Muḥammad Abū Ma’shar wrote a book – and published it in Venice. It was the place to be, and to […]
Science Art: Cosmic Reef, by the Hubble Space Telescope
Click to embiggen Astronomers are marking the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a “ portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a […]
Science Art: Photograph taken from a high-speed video camera during a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun (EMRG)…, 2008.
Click to embiggen No gunpowder was harmed in the making of this photograph. That’s just the power of a lot of magnetism making a hunk […]
Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.
Click to embiggen Not a landscape, nor a texture, but an electrical conductor. From Mr. Pervan’s explanation on Wikimedia Commons: My research is on using […]
Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.
Click to embiggen From the USGS: This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from […]
Science Art: Elasmotherium by Alice B. Woodward, 1912.
Click to embiggen The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. […]
Science Art: Hemisphere Austral, XVIII from Atlas Coelestis, by John Flamsteed, 1729.
Click to embiggen From 1675 until his death in 1719, John Flamsteed worked at the newly built Greenwich Observatory, charting the stars in the sky. […]
Science Art: Water-Cooling of the Converter, 1891
Click to embiggen From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the […]
Science Art: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus particles (orange) found near the periphery of an infected cell (green).
Click to embiggen A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the […]