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On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:54 -0500, Knut Langsestmo wrote:
> > I can still remember attending one of my first crystallography
> > seminars
> > and being shocked at the apparent confusion of the distinguished
> > speaker
> > (the late Paul Sigler, IIRC) who inadvertently referred to red as
> > negative and blue as positive.
At least in the case of electric charge, the color convention is
entirely arbitrary. I still find it annoying that in most B-factor
("thermal") plots, blue generally means cold and red means hot. This is
counter-physical.
Cheers,
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