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To: palmer
Yes I did notice that the other letters and numbers had been distorted with the enlargement. I am a novice at any of this and was not convinced there was a K where I only saw an E. That is why I attempted to prove to myself that it really was just an E. Then I saw the K in the enlargement and said whoa!
1,711 posted on 08/04/2009 8:40:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Yes I did notice that the other letters and numbers had been distorted with the enlargement. I am a novice at any of this and was not convinced there was a K where I only saw an E. That is why I attempted to prove to myself that it really was just an E. Then I saw the K in the enlargement and said whoa!

Red, I am the person who created the image of the BC in question. I made the JPEG so that it would be a quick download and provide information about what was being discussed. It was not meant to under-go a forensic proctological exam. The original picture was imbedded in a FLASH script and was not savable... I captured the image at the largest the fixed frame would allow in a PNG (lossless) format. That PNG image clearly shows an "E" in Lavender's name. However, the PNG file was 870K in size and would take a long time for people on slow internet connections to download—five or six minutes on dialup. When I uploaded it to my image sharing host site, it was automatically converted to a 70% compression JPEG of about 85K, 1/10 the size it was before. It would then download very rapidly. However, that process removed detail data from the file to get it that small. Among the details that were removed were the exact color and shade amounts for each pixel around the letters used to anti-alias them. The simplified anti-aliasing BLURRED the letters. The "E" sort of looked like a "K" and our minds want to make sense of blurs so the brain created a gestalt that looks like a "K." Here are side-by-side comparisons of the JPEG image (right) and PNG image (left), both blown up to 700%. Remember THESE ARE THE SAME PICTURE!


2,070 posted on 08/04/2009 10:25:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker (remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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