Posted on 08/15/2010 5:19:21 PM PDT by wendy1946
This one requires a bit of a geek trick; nonetheless I was able to start with the ESA (European Space Agency) image which people are talking about and produce pretty much what they claim to be seeing using the Windows version of GIMP: darken substantially, raise contrast substantially, and then desaturate for hue...
A typical web description of the problem...
A totally simple-minded Youtube description of techniques required to undo and/or fix the problem.
The actual ESA image in question as the public sees it.
Relevant Section:
What I get from the lower left region of that image with GIMP:
What IS all that stuff?? I've got absolutely no idea, except that it pretty obviously isn't natural or any sort of a trick of light or shadow.
Was ESA deliberately trying to hide this stuff or was the glare of the sun sufficient without any sort of an ESA conspiracy, again no real way to know. This was with ten minutes of work on my part, Joseph Skipper's website contains several shots of the same stuff with a bit more work than that put into them, e.g.
Basically, nobody in the science communities which follow this stuff out there trust these government space agencies any more and whenever an image appears more than a bit interesting people will check it out with photoshop, the GIMP or whatever, and it isn't rare that this sort of thing turns up.
It’s probably a product of the composite process. I doubt the Europeans would hide it if they’d discovered Martian civilization. They’d be shouting halleluia.
Must be Area 52.
Could actually be bright sunlight just blurring the features as I mentioned.
What I need is a 16 bit TIF file to start with so I can open it in RAW to get greater control. Everything from the ESA is available in TIF format but I haven’t got a clue as to what photo was used or what area was zoomed and cropped.
Zooming in beyond the intended resolution would bring out the pixels like that. Contrast and brightness would really make them pop out.
Leggoland.
Now that I look at the whole photo it does look a lot like what we see in google earth with the 3-D view. The whole photo is pixelated like that.
I see the effect all the time in GIMP. In a limited range of colors you boost contrast and you get digital output like that.
You’ll notice that one section is labeled “relevant” but if you look at the whole picture its obvious that the pixelated effect is present on the whole thing. Its called misdirection like magicians use.
I’m guessing that the places with the least pixelated were photographed at a lesser angle and not distorted as much in the process of making the 30D effect.
“As the public sees it” (and apparently the folks at the ESA).
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&keyword=hale&single=y&start=8
that last picture definitely looks like a frog exhaling smoke...on top of a bunch of legos, of course...
fyi
There’s a strange tombstone looking object toward the upper left corner of this picture. Definitely doesn’t look like a natural shape.
something odd in the upper right corner too, but it’s cut off
You don't think that's altering?
What’s that from?
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