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Originally Posted by JonClarke
First of all what you see as evidence of "aggressively suppressed" 3D cues are in fact a reflection of the image being taken under suboptimal conditions - hazy aatmosphere, of axis imaging, and unfavourable light aangles.
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Jon, either you're still looking at the wrong image, or you've been misunderstanding everything I've been writing.
I've been writing about the processing that was applied to the image _after_ it was sent back to Earth. Normal 3D shading cues, which were _present_ in the image that was returned by the spacecraft, were _absent_ in the image that was used in the press release.
Please look at the animation attached to this message. One frame is the image that was returned by the spacecraft (with left/right inversion corrected, and contrast normalized) and the other frame is the image that was used in the press release. I've applied a simple streak removal algorithm, and 50% scale reduction, to both frames.
When you watch this animation, I'm sure that you'll see how the normal 3D shading cues have been suppressed.
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Update, 1/15/2008: I've uploaded a full-size version of this animation, with labels identifying the frames, to an image host which doesn't have a file size limit:
(before-after.gif, 512x480 pixels, 2 frames, 532,569 bytes, sha1sum 6020a9d54b876cff135ab8fd09bff0a5668f1e2e)
http://s2.supload.com/free/before-af...3559.gif/view/
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