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To: prayforpeaceofJerusalem
I wasn't going to bother responding to your post since I don't generally like to waste my time with nonsense but I also don't like to see people blind themselves to reality. First of all, who Obama is and pretends to be and his dangerous agenda for America is one thing, and his website is quite another.
Low resolution (72dpi) images that are highly compressed have alot of what is called artifacts, which are distortions that appear around elements of the image. Artifacts will distort the appearance of lettering, and add to that an image that has been inverted and colorized and voila, you get an E that very vaguely resembles a Z or L. That slight ambiguity coupled with someone who is already convinced there are many things wrong with an image and it becomes self-fulfilling that you see what you want to see.
I took the original background image (I don't want an image that someone else has "enhanced" because they may introduce more inaccuracies). I resampled the image to enlarge it using Altamira Group's Genuine Fractals filter (in Photoshop) which is one of the better algorithms for lossless enlargement. I then applied only one effect which is to burn shadows. The reason we burn shadows rather than for instance increase contrast is because we don't want to artificially lighten any part which contrast will do. We just want to enhance the shadows to give the letter it's original definition.
You can see in my image the 2 darkest spot are naturally the 2 main dark parts of an E, the areas above and below the center stem. The center stem is short but visible. You can also see the lightest parts out to the right correspond to and form the upper and lower arms of the E, and the center clearly shows the straight back of an E and not the slant of a Z.
The 3 trailing light areas to the left must be dismissed because they are all the same tone. A Z would have a leftward arm as strong or close to the the bottom rightward arm. A Z would also not have the shadows where they are.
It's an E.



The fact is there are plenty of issues to get riled up over and go after Obama for. Trying to say that their web designer purposefully put "Z Pluribus Unum" is not one of them. It just makes you appear foolish.
85 posted on 04/26/2008 8:04:45 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us . nature photography desktop wallpapers)
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To: visualops

Where is the rest of the “Pluribus Unum” to go with your “E”? I asked you for the whole phrase done equally and together, as on other web pages where they did so, and where the “E” shows itself to be not an “E” but a “Z’ while the “Pluribus Unum” lettering remains entirely clear and unchanged.
Anyone can do anything with an isolated letter, but the letter as you tweaked it with the “Pluribus Unum” is what I asked you for, to make your opinion credible. -And also, to be credible, take a real “E” with the “Pluribus Unum”, from a Government page, and do the same tweaking, to prove you are not the one just seeing what you want to see. But ya gotta do the entire phrase, to be believed, and the “Pluribus Unum” must remain as clear as it does on all the enlarged enhancements while the “E” is a “Z”.

The entire image, as it comes up in the subliminal fashion on Obama’s web pages, is intended to convey a definite - and not accidental- message, which has been discussed already here and on the web, on other forums.


86 posted on 04/26/2008 9:00:35 PM PDT by prayforpeaceofJerusalem
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