Monthly Archives: April 2021

CorelDRAW process: 5 gaussian blur-color_transform 3-4-4

Methods to assess TEM and AFM images, Science and art cover illustrations, surfactant proteins A and D

CorelDRAW process: 5 gaussian px blur then color_transform 3-4-4 of several images from a publication that i have referenced many many times shown below. On these dodecamers of SP-D I have been using various image processing programs to figure out just the best way to amplify, and plot their peak brightness peaks along the collagen-like segment.  In that process (bad pun) i found the color transform in corelDRAW ( both x5 and 19).  It is a stitch, and the peaks along the collagen like segment are well noted…. at least as well as in any other image processing (or data processing as gwyddion calls it) program.  My picks for programs for processessing AFM images are the old versions of Photoshop  (yep, the old CD style) of photoshop 6 is just as nice as the new photoshop 2021, and the old version of CorelDRAW (x5 and including CorelPhotoPaint) is just as good as the new version (CorelDRAW 19 also including CorelPhotopaint)  and both are much more user friendly with many more options than either Gwyddion or ImageJ.  And sometimes with these highly developed (though NOT FREE) programs it can be just plain fun while it is informative.  (Thank you Arroyo et al. for the various AFM images from your publication  (smiley face).  Blue bar-100nm

Verge of a Dream: ‘In a silver frame’

Prose and Poems

Three pink roses.
Almost white, less
than a blush.  I might
Have known if your
brow is so….but
Never saw you then,
At a confirmation
Or saying grace
when young.  And
in the late day light,
I never saw you on
The grand piano in
A silver frame
Wearing white.
Maybe by the time
You held the
first child, I was
on my own.  I think
You would remember.
if the innocence had
left.  And with it,
the third rose,
was just
the same.  It must
be for you to say
if the bloom has
come back again.
RLB 03/31/2021