Space art and knowledge
Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:28:10 +0100, Dawid Michalczyk
wrote:
Something I was wondering about lately is how space art is perceived by
those who are knowledgeable about astronomy and space in general. How do
you perceive space art that does not accurately represent the current
astronomical knowledge? Good, bad?
I'm curious about this because my own space work is based mostly on
imagination rather than scientific knowledge of outer space. What are
your thoughts? Thanks.
Well, LOTR is one of my favorite books, but I don't mistake it for
reality g.
If space art represents itself as scientifically accurate, and it isn't,
that's not a good thing. If it is clearly fantasy, there's nothing wrong
with that. Personally, I do find it kind of jarring to see space art
that has elements that are _obviously_ unreal, however. Your images
aren't in that category (except for showing galaxies and nebulas as
colorful, but that's an exaggeration I don't find unreasonable-
grayscale skies would get kind of boring after a while).
Indeed, NASA does the same thing with Hubble images - most of them are
false-color, with contrast exaggerated.
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