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.
Posted on 08/15/2010 5:19:21 PM PDT by wendy1946
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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