Science and Art Fusion

Blueprint for Bacterial Life

The image above is the E.Coli 2 created by Elaine Shemilt.

Elaine Shemilt's chapter on science-art fusion was very compelling to me.  I am fascinated by the contributions that art is making in the field of science.  We all know that artists have drawn, painted and created many images of plants, animals, human etc. for hundreds of years.  These images were primarily used for teaching.   The unifying of digital art with science has now opened the door for new discoveries.  Scientists have traditionally used graphs, charts, massive amount of numeric data to make determination and find causes and solutions.  The fact that an artist can take the same data and create a work of art that is able to expose an area that the was previously not apparent to the scientist is incredible.  Perhaps we will begin to see faster advances in the field of medicine and hopefully some cures for life threatening diseases.