kovish@mprvaxa.UUCP (Barrie Kovish) (03/06/84)
x<-This space intentionally not left blank. x<-This space intentionally not left blank. Heres a "BioComputing" idea I have wondered about for a while. Suppose we take a film of some cellular behavior under an optical microscope. This film would then be digitized and processed by a computer. A fourier transform of each image location intensity (color?) as a function of time would be performed. The computer could then insert artificial colors into the image depending upon the time dependent fluctuations in intensity at each image location. More complicated functions of the intensity fluctuations might be developed to color the image. Would the resulting image reveal aspects of cellular behavior not observable normally? Some reasons why it might are: small or quick intensity fluctuations will probably be integrated by the eye and hence invisible; objects too small to be resolved by the optical microscope may still manifest themselves optically by producing intensity fluctuations (only marginally similar to light scattering studies of macromolecules). Has any one tried this? I'm curious what the results were/would be. Thanks for any info.