Can scientific data be art?

[Amir]

Have you ever seen a scientific related image and thought "wow, that's
just beautiful!"?

I came across a couple of university internal "art of science"
competitions where scientists present images from their research and
compete based on beauty... why should it be only within universities?

I created a simple gallery at http://www.myartinscience.com/ where
anyone can post, view, share, comment and discuss these images.

Join me and share the beauty in science!

A.S

[Richard Brooks]

Amir said the following on 01/10/2008 16:06:

There was a documentary some years ago about the guy who was employed
by IBM solely to make artistic graphic work on their computers. I
can't remember it actually being Mandelbrot but it might have been.

Very early stuff...
<http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue70/084_1_IBM_Fractal_Graphics.php>

Interesting 3D stuff...
http://www.mysticfractal.com/Galleries.html