Genetic Portraits of Infamous Viruses
The genomes for several viruses were transcoded directly into 6-bit RGB pixel values and rendered as the images above. Viruses featured include Ebola, Measles, Polio, Human Coronavirus (common cold and SARS), and Smallpox.
PS - I’m currently experimenting with weaving these images into blankets!
Genome Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore
Human Rhinovirus 89 (AKA The Common Cold), Complete Genome
Genome rendered directly into a 6-bit RGB color space.
Source:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/9627730?report=fasta
Human Immunodeficiency Virus 2, Complete Genome
Complete genome rendered in a 6-bit color space. Nucleotids are assigned a predetermined value (A = 0, C = 85, G = 170, T = 255), grouped into triplets, then assigned to a pixel.
NCBI Reference Sequence: NC_001722.1
Source:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/9628880?report=fasta
Influenza A Virus (A/New York/1669/2009(H1N1))
Genome rendered directly into a 6-bit RGB color space.
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid643959
Homo sapiens chromosome 15 genomic contig, GRCh37.p10 Primary Assembly
I wanted to see what DNA would look like translated directly into RGB pixel values. My method assigns 2-bit values to each base pair (A, C, G, & T). Each triplet of base pair values is then translated directly into a 6-bit RGB pixel value. For example, the sequence ATG is equivalent to a single RGB pixel value: 0, 255, 170.
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NT_037852.6?from=1&to=2212114&report=fasta
NCBI Reference Sequence: NT_037852.6
>gi|224514874|ref|NT_037852.6| Homo sapiens chromosome 15 genomic contig, GRCh37.p10 Primary Assembly
/private/var/db/crls/00EB0CCCF4716CBA4623A3D52F98D43DF630A91D.crl
A hidden Certificate Revocation List File in Mac OS 10.7.4 opened as a 2048px wide RGB image.
More on .CRL files: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/crl
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Thanks to These New Sunglasses, I can Stare into the Sun Forever
An animated GIF made using heavily processed video of the NASA SDO was databent to produce this frame.
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The Sun is a Giant Nuclear Furnace and Will Swallow Us Whole Some Day No.2
A video from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) website was databent using a hex-editor, then opened in QT. The playback head was scrubbed to generate the frames from which this animation originated. While animating the frames in GIMP, the color space was changed from Indexed to RGB with the Animation Preview filter running, which caused radical color shifts and other artifacts.
On view through June 23rd.
RECOMMENDED: A Camera Darkly, curated by A. E. Benenson and featuring the work of Phillip Stearns and Christian de Vietri, is currently on view at The Camera Club of New York (336 West 37th Street, Suite 206) through June 23, 2012. The work on display engages early photographic techniques and the genre’s more contemporary forms. Stearns rewires a digital camera’s photosensitive chips to respond to electric pulses instead of light. The resulting images resemble 19th Century light-less entoptic images. De Vietri submits a series of Gustave Doré black and white lithographs to a scanner, which translates the prints into waves of color, suggesting a complex relationship between printmaking and digital production.
Phillip Stearns, DCP_0022, 2012. 36” x 27”. Digital C-Print.
