This is a new section as of 2008 for SciScoop in which artists and scientists can submit their images, photos, graphics, paintings, sketches and other works from science-inspired art and artistic science.
The idea was suggested by Randall Klopping, whose image of a quantum world provides the graphical icon for this new SciScoop section.
Signup to SciScoop here (only registered users can submit stories, news, and art). Then use the standard Submit Scoop link to post your image. You should choose the Post Your Sci-Art topic and Art Meets Science from the drop down menus at the top of the submission form.
Please describe the art, the science and how the two mesh in the intro box and in the article body text you may add more details or simply insert the graphic using standard html to hotlink your graphic from your hosting, server, website or other system.
If you don't have your own website or domain on which to hold images you wish to publish on SciScoop.com, you will need a hosting site for your images. This method is also a lot easier than using the above code to be honest.
One free site is ImageHosting.com it is much easier to use if you're not familiar with html code.
Once you've set up your ImageHosting.com account, click on the "home" link at the top of their page and you upload your image there. Once uploaded, it will take you to the code page. The first window right below the image is the code you want to paste into your Sciscoop submission.
To set your image for the size required at SciScoop, you simply change the width & height settings (highlighted in blue) - example, if you original image is 800x600, you would change the width to "450" and height to "338".
Unfortunately, there is no option, at the moment, for you to upload images directly to the SciScoop server. Instead, you will have to temporarily "hotlink" your image files (whether they're hosted at ImageShack, flickr, Picasa, or your own website) and an editor will then save the file to the SciScoop server and edit the html accordingly, once your post is in the edit/submission queue.
If you wish to add a thumbnail of your artwork to the intro please use the following code at the very top of the intro:
<img style="width:70;float:left;padding-right:4px;padding-top:5px;" src="http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/IMAGE-FOLDER/YOUR-IMAGE-NAME.jpg">
Once you've submitted the item, the code should have angle brackets and quote marks not code like > and " etc
All images submitted to the Sci-Art gallery should be your copyright or available under a Creative Commons license.
If you have any problems or queries, please contact us and we'll try to answer them.
