
Biological Imaging Becomes a Game
Date: Sunday, March 05 @ 06:29:00 GMT Topic: Image Acquisition
Who said that research can never be turned into a game? This appears to be the approach that one professor has taken: solving a complex and dull problem through an analogy. Perhaps this provides a mental simplification too.
"Scientists are like you and me: they sometimes need to relax. This is why Veit Elser, professor at Cornell University, has applied an algorithm developed for X-ray diffraction microscopy to solve Sudoku puzzles. The difference-map algorithm, which he discovered with other chemists and physicists, will be primarily used for biological imaging..."
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