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Monday, 7 January 2019

I am an artist now

The visitor's office now features a ginormous (~3x2 m) print of one my artsy-farsty data visualisation projects. Original with explanations here :
https://astrorhysy.blogspot.com/2018/06/h-one.html



The landscape is an intensity map of the hydrogen content of M33, where intensity generates height rather than colour (landscape colours are completely arbitrary and were added by someone else to make things prettier, and rightly so). The background colours are derived from the frequency and intensity of Milky Way hydrogen. They're a bit washed out in the final print version compared to the original, but they get the job done.

The original digital version of this image looks like this :


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3 comments:

  1. Rhys Taylor7 January 2019 at 14:40

    Original digital version with better colours :
    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Szm0v0l6F8-41Ez1J8sUncf6GEbktjP0b-pgX59CMR6rvqAUbH0gqtRfJgG86rUkYrSeW0-w8mTzvoJafqijONlIiyL_cK3mGxHl=s0

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  2. Elie Thorne7 January 2019 at 22:19

    There is a joke somewhere here about astronomers working for exposure, but I can't quite find it.

    Also, congratulations, you are now officially an artist!

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  3. Simon B9 January 2019 at 22:47

    That's really cool Rhys!

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