{"id":10960,"date":"2005-10-01T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/10\/droppin-some-science.html"},"modified":"2005-10-01T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T12:38:59","slug":"droppin_some_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/droppin_some_science\/","title":{"rendered":"Droppin&#039; some science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Psst<\/i>&#8211;hey buddy, seen any good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/309\/5743\/1991b\">kite-borne photos of Estonian peat bogs<\/a> lately?  You would if you checked out the winners in Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/sciext\/vis2005\/\" \/>Visualization Challenge<\/a> [link via <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2005\/09\/27\/2005-visualization-challenge-winners\/\" \/>PhotoshopNews<\/a>]. But if your tastes run more towards the secret life of the pea weevil (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visions-of-science.co.uk\/competition.htm\">really!<\/a>), check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visions-of-science.co.uk\/index.html\">Visions of Science Photographic Awards<\/a>.  Winners include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visions-of-science.co.uk\/winners2005\/win-05.htm\">revealing images<\/a> that were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visions-of-science.co.uk\/winners2005\/win-08.htm\">colored in Photoshop<\/a>.<br \/>\nPhotoshop wasn&#8217;t designed for scientific imaging per se, but we&#8217;re learning quite a bit about how it gets used in a broad range of applications.  Last year I got to visit NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/johnson\/home\/index.html\">Johnson Space Center<\/a>.  The team preparing the next shuttle flight requested better measurement tools that could aid in the analysis of the shuttle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/t2www.nasa.r3h.net:80\/images\/content\/125680main_pao_iss011e11084_hires.jpg\">heat-resistant tiles<\/a>.  (They also mentioned a rumor that a copy of Photoshop has even found its way onto the International Space Station&#8211;evidently several astronauts are avid photographers&#8211;but I&#8217;ve never been quite able to confirm that.)<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re working to build up info and resources on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/digitalimag\/science.html\">Photoshop in the sciences<\/a>, as well as its uses in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/digitalimag\/engineering.html\">engineering<\/a> and other disciplines.  If you&#8217;re using Photoshop in these fields, and\/or if you have ideas on how we should develop the app to suit your needs, please let us know.  Post a comment, or <a href=\"mailto:jnack@adobe.com,ashley@adobe.com\">drop us a line<\/a>.<br \/>\nThanks,<br \/>\nJ.<br \/>\nPS&#8211;Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/science\/\" \/>scientific computing pages<\/a> mention numerous uses of Photoshop, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/science\/profiles\/visiblehuman\/\" \/>Visible Human Project<\/a>.<br \/>\nPPS&#8211;Good luck to this group of 7th &amp; 8th graders, who want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumberland.k12.wi.us\/cms\/spiars.html\">send film into orbit<\/a> and then analyze the results in Photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psst&#8211;hey buddy, seen any good kite-borne photos of Estonian peat bogs lately? You would if you checked out the winners in Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation&#8217;s Visualization Challenge [link via PhotoshopNews]. But if your tastes run more towards the secret life of the pea weevil (really!), check out the Visions of Science Photographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}