Abstract painting and astronomical image processing
pp. 103-124
Abstract
For ages, astronomers have sought to "envisage" the stars — that is, to imagine them as if they were close up, at the same distance from the viewer as ordinary three-dimensional objects on earth. This has meant that all astronomers, particularly if they wished to communicate their sky-images to others, have had to think of asterisms in the forms of traditional schemata, the accepted conventions of picture-making in the astronomer's native culture at a given historical time.
Publication details
Published in:
Tauber Alfred (1997) The elusive synthesis: aesthetics and science. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 103-124
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1786-6_5
Full citation:
Lynch Michael, Edgerton Samuel (1997) „Abstract painting and astronomical image processing“, In: A. Tauber (ed.), The elusive synthesis, Dordrecht, Springer, 103–124.