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makc

everyone wants to be The Last One.

makc

I have heared about some "condensation" theory of planet formation, according to that there should be rings around every planet (probably, same math, except that ring material is not made by crater-to-satellite impacts, but is simply the rest of the material satellits and planets were made...

makc

Please frogive me for not haveing time to read all 100+ pages of posts...I think this is the flash, and smoke left over from the launch of some sort of weapon...however...Why is the device not at the launch point. What could possibly move so fast that it is already out of the screen while the flash...

makc

Here we have a similar effect: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010219.html -Dudelman. There is a problem with your image: - in our image the streak is very straight, but slightly visible, and is darker than the sky; - in your image the streak is curved, pefectly visible, and reminds me the trace...

makc

I'm trying to derive light path equation from (A1) at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gi ... endix.html

From what I have

it follows that there is circular orbit at any radius, which is wrong. Where is my mistake?

Thanx.

makc

I think you could work on your image a bit more (like, remove noise, etc).

makc

I bet not as good as sex.

makc

How come people are still discussing this? I think it's mostly because they can't/won't read 137 pages of debates, so they suggest same things (both wrong AND right) over and over...

Me guilty, too

I think it is time to lock the thread.

makc

If you can show that given a bee's body width is the width of the streak, would he have covered that distance in 1/20 sec. okay, assume the streack, 40 times longer than the bee, represents bee flight in the plane exactly ortogonal to camera axis. assume the bee is 1.5 cm long. that gives us 60cm p...

makc

If you can show that given a bee's body width is the width of the streak, would he have covered that distance in 1/20 sec. and what is the distance? if you want to say: the streak is 40 times longer than the bee, so it has flied 40 times more of it's own length - no, because we have to consider thr...

makc

Okay... To end up this discussion, I've made an image where you can actually see the bee itself , but it seems victorengel was first to achieve this level of quality for bee shape... Here are steps to re-produce image: 1. mix 50/50 before-after image, and filter it (Gaussian blur, 0.5 pix) 2. apply...

makc

In an article linked in above post, someone wrote:Remember, if you do follow up you are talking to an idiot. Treat them with the ill-respect they deserve.

makc

oh, come on! cut the crap!

it's a bee! what other proves you need?

makc

Okay... To end up this discussion, I've made an image where you can actually see the bee itself , but it seems victorengel was first to achieve this level of quality for bee shape... Here are steps to re-produce image: 1. mix 50/50 before-after image, and filter it (Gaussian blur, 0.5 pix) 2. apply ...

makc

victorengel wrote:I'm not sure how to answer this because I'm not sure where you're seeing complexity...are we not left with a relatively simple pattern?

I made some simple enhancements on this image. Don't know if it would help you to see complexity, or jpeg artifacts.

makc

The image from my above post is now wide-spread over the net, and is actually loosely cropped version of this image (see below) by J.P.Luminet; on one of his site pages you can find older, original computer-simulated image . http://lpnhe-auger.in2p3.fr/slides/vulg/TNM.gif (image removed - it's in po...

makc

Though this APOD is awesome piece of digital art, it is very far from how black hole would really look like. I've seen so-called "blak hole pictures" on APOD site before, and I don't understand why so misleading and non-even-close images are published on astronomy sites over and over, and ...

makc

Latest leading question "How old is this galaxy?" is three days old. I guess RJN took its "annoyance" into account

makc

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040822.html contains link http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply that sais that NASA images are in public domain, and guidelines to use them are at http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html however, 60 words you w...

makc

I think "in sync" is illusion caused by continuous re-play and low framerate (so things that have changed its brightness at different time inbetween are just shown in every new frame all together, and then again, and again...) For example, take two or three shots of the crowdy street with ...

makc

...but "the only difference" is still a difference...

Plus, if there would be no, what would be need in re-inventing it? I assumed it was all about detection based on curve, and so your stuff would be "easier way to go" or something...

makc

...comments? I have problems with english, so perhaps I've misunderstood you. Also, I come from digital image processing backgrounds (Kodak POS photo voodoo ;) ), so I will use other words here. If I understand you, you average "important" pixel values in X and then Y directions, and then...

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