When the time comes to change a paradigm --- to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another - the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront."

The author questions the origin of the artist/scientist split, manifest in the structure of our higher educational institutions, and comments on the many existing and potential contributions of art to science, especially computer graphics and visualization. It is the author's view that the distinction between and separation of art and science is artificial and increasingly anachronistic, and that education is both a problem and a solution."'Truth,' as defined by Alfred North Whitehead, 'is the conformation of Appearance to Reality.' What makes any set of bedrock truths slippery is that every age and every culture defines this conformation in its own way. When the time comes to change a paradigm --- to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another - the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront." [1]

When the time comes to change a paradigm --- to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another - the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront."

Special focus: visual literacy