Posted on 02/23/2013 8:01:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2
I found a link to this INTERACTIVE VIEW of the Curiosity Rover on Mars on the ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE.
It is one of the most amazing uses of this technology I have seen. It is like standing beside the Rover on Mars and using a pair of binoculars.
Give it a try. It is really fun.
(Excerpt) Read more at 360cities.net ...
Not so. Here is the PTgui stitched panorama of the raw sol 177 images. The overlapping views eliminate the arm naturally.
You can see that what's missing is the full horizon, so the image maker wrapped it a little tighter and stitched a piece in from other sources.
A 360-Degree ‘Street View’ From Mars:Awesome 360 Degree Images of Mars Taken by 'Curiosity' http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2918701/posts"
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And that is what you are complaining about ?
I posted that very same interactive 360 degree image o Mars made within days of Curiosity's landing
Well... it's not the very same image at all. Yours was from Day 2 and mine was from Day 170, iirc.
All of them are amazing, aren't they ?
Since you seem to be quite an expert on the technical aspects of the Martian Soil, I wonder if you could view the first panorama on the list at the URL below, and tell me if you find any ‘glitches’.
http://www.360pano.eu/mars/?lang=1
But there's another video almost as awesome actually even more awesome, I'd say the video of curiosity falling down on its approach to landing is even more of a thrill than the 360 panorama. Filmed in super HD .Please get back to me and give me your breathless reaction to watching Curiosity fall and land flawlessly. Please don't disappoint me.
Mars Curiosity Descent - Ultra HD 30fps Smooth-Motion
When he wrapped it tighter he had to make a seam in the landscape where he stretched out the mid and far ground and reattached it to the foreground, of course this changes the appearance and landmarks in the vicinity of Curiosity.
And yes that’s what I’m complaining about: it’s not a faithful representation.
Of course, that’s just a joke, which is not the same thing as misrepresenting a creative pastiche as a sol 177 panorama.
OK... so the dirt is a bit wrong in places. What did you think about the rover and the landscape view ?
Maybe.
Here's another joke.
Other than YOUTUBE stopping every 8 seconds , it is a pretty cool video. I’ve seen it many times.
I give up. it seems there’s nothing in my bag of tricks that will impress you.
That's OK. I appreciate the back and forth sometimes much more than the 'tricks'.
May I try to impress you?
You know, I was thinking about this, and I'm glad you replied, because I didn't want to reply to myself.
I recently read THE SWERVE by Stephen Greenblatt, about the discovery in the early 1400's by one Poggio Bracciolini of the only surviving transcipt of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ... On the Nature of Things. A fascinating tale, but I will try to progress to my point.
In the course of its telling the author comes upon Giordano Bruno, ultimately a martyr to free thought, and describes a work of his which mocked the idea of omniscient Providence, in which Bruno satirically described the god Mercury dictating the minutia of everyday existence "That Vasta, wife of Albbenzio Savolino, ... shall burn fifty seven hairs for having let the curling iron get too hot, ..." and so on.
This is deemed by the author as an expression of rebellion against an oppressive theology, as I suppose it was. Ironically though, your thoroughly modern correspondent has always been sympathetically contemplative of the idea that "even the hairs on your head are numbered". To me it is an expression of objective reality. There's nowhere to hide, you see. What is, is. So hew closely to it.
I thought of this in my chagrin at your cavalier dismissal of the entire Martian landscape as uninteresting. To me, this is supremely selfish and egotistical. Are you worth more than Mars? Do you have that many hairs on your head?
...at your cavalier dismissal of the entire Martian landscape as uninteresting.
I don't know how you got that out of what I said.
I asked you other than your technical challenges, did you enjoy the ROVER and the MARTIAN LANDSCAPE (... implying "as much as I did").
The fact that you can zoom in to the far horizon or to nearby rocks is awesome. Even IF it is not 100% realistic.
How did you come up with the idea I was 'dismissing the landscape'? You seem to be the one who is so focused on the minor imperfections, and missing the beautiful view, if we are to believe your comments.
Well, I complained that the panorama moved around various features, which to me is the landscape, and it’s certainly not “soil” or “dirt”, and then you said it looked like a dried river bed and it “WASN”T WHAT INTERESTED ME”. It’s like you don’t even SEE the landscape.
True you referred to the “martian landscape” but you know, it isn’t the martian landscape, it’s a hodge-podge. I want to see what’s there, not some fabrication.
It’s a fascinating place, and as Curiosity moves around, I like to look for the features that were closer or more distant in other views. This is a lot harder to do than you’d think because prominent nearby feature can appear very differently, or even be hidden, from a location displaced by 30 feet or so. But you can build up a sense of place by learning various reference points.
I was very impressed by the cleaned up descent video, which was done scientifically to bring out details and smooth the motion of the descent. It remains entirely faithful to the actual view, though.
There is also an interactive panorama from images taken at the landing site, which I believe is a faithful representation. The image coverage was more comprehensive in that case, so that guy didn’t have to do violence to the scenery to get the cool effects, I guess.
The striking effect of these interactive pano’s is produced by the ability to pan while keeping a wide field of view. You can zoom in and out on a fixed panorama made with full resolution, and this is nice, but it is not nearly as impressive as the interactive jobs.
nice brick work!
uh, hang on
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