September 24, 2006

Mona’s from Mars, Photoshop’s from Venus

Photoshop’s use in the sciences has been getting some good press lately:

• Space.com talks about Photoshop being used to bring new data out of 25-year-old Soviet footage from Venus. [Via]

• Wired has a story about scientists analyzing the Mona Lisa’s smile using, among other things, the app’s Gaussian Blur filter. [Via]
• Lockergnome talks about the tools being used to restore a 700-year-old sacred Hindu text.

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