This image was sent to me by a friend, one which I had totally forgotten having made decades ago.
Ha! I hope you have a sense of humor. I am using a new program, and some nonsensical algorithm produce a black and white image that I was compelled to play games with. Anyone who wants a poster of this famous SP-D molecule (well studied by me but originally published by Arroyo et al, and totally turned into vector-pop-art by me) just ask and pay for printing and shipping, I get nothing, and its yours. Rest assured, no government funds were spent on this colorized image.
Why no uniformity in colors ascribed to amino acids? This cant be rocket science. There should be a way to pick some attribute, for example, branch chain, and have an array of colors from most to least, then with a selection, large to small, and then basic to acid, etc with hydrophobic to hydrophilic.
Then why not combine two attributes with a color between those two colors. Its not like we have a paucity of colors available, and you can be sure the RGB scale could provide one with plenty of blended choices – but not this chaos.
So, new topic,what is the best way (there will be as many variations here as for color (maybe without quite so many tones as colors (well that probably isn’t going to be true, since tonal perception is not as substantial as visual perception of color –haha)at least that is my opinion as someone who has studied music for decade).
Science illustrations fun reminders: coronavirus charms, patterns for cross stitch, fridge magnets — all made with some accuracy for the real SARS Cov 2 anatomy in mind. This has been an education for me, firstly in modeling proteins on RCSB and the pluses and lacks theirin, also for learning a little about virology, even more importantly, for releasing that pent up emotion over this crisis, having to work from home – which has its own problems and rewards and not knowing whether the crisis politically drive, fear driven, whether this approach is good for society and the economy or bad for society and the economy, which leaders are telling facts which are telling fiction, and knowing the final impact will only be known in the passage of time).
BUT – here are some fun (at least fun for me) products of these last two months (made without apology and without fear).
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Just working to keep my sanity. Here is a counted cross stitch of a virus particle in blues and yellows. Just ask for it or find it HERE. Be well, mm
made this counted cross stitch pattern of the coronavirus… find the pattern really cheap here, and help relieve some of your stress as you stitch it
It will seem odd to most but i find this image as beautiful as any abstract art I have seen, and so deeply moving. We are nothing more than iterations, repeating stanzas; cut and paste; carbon copies — all of us. See original image here.