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by footprint
Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:25 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Holographic Principle (APOD 16 Dec 2007)
Replies: 24
Views: 7011

Ahh, should have thought about that first. I took the image to photoshop and converted it to grayscale. Works just as well. I even took the contrast waaay down (-99) and it still worked, but became hard to view past -97 or so. Refocusing at low contrast however seemed to invert the image more readil...
by footprint
Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:29 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Holographic Principle (APOD 16 Dec 2007)
Replies: 24
Views: 7011

Why always the same multicolored image

Hey, I've got a question about these stereograms, or whatever they're called. Of course they were all the rage a number of years ago, but I've always been curious whether they need to be multicolored as they always are. I've never seen one in grayscale, or more "natural" colors. I assume t...
by footprint
Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:23 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: shuttle pic
Replies: 1
Views: 2405

shuttle pic

So, on today's shuttle pic (August 2nd), there are a lot of bright pixels on the high res image. I would expect these were imaging defects if there were only a few, and if there weren't parallel streaks terminating at some of these "defects". Any explaination on what these might be?

JS