Originally posted by jaffer44
Thank you for taking the time to scan and show me unfortunately it does not confirm that they like to use the erea of the note to show how good the photography is.

It's usually a point of zoom or detail with a picture in it and is normally around the left side of the note. I don't really see using the picture of the all seeing eye that different from my VFX book using the image on that note. American currency isn't always used.

You say this is from a book about forensics and looking for finger prints ?

Negative. It's from a visual effects book. Signal/image processing books have similar examples and, though I can't say exactly how prevelant it is, I read quite a few image processing books and it's not abnormal to me.

I delibrately didn't look in my forensics books since they regularly have currency in them in context of moire pattern processing. The microscope links also show zooming in on particular imagery of currency to show detail. Just included the forensics reference for trivia.

Is I said before I can think I've many other items they could have used that we're in context with the mission.

Most of the other examples are things like kodak girl, photograph man, and things like animals or cell structures/crystal lattice etc ... There is also a bus image that people like John Russ use an awful lot. Parrots get a bit of photograph time since they show RGB values.

There are some image processing tutorials that use shots of planets or astrophotography but those tend to be in the context of pullling out information for scientific purposes not as an example of image quality. NASA, in this case, likely wanted a terrestrial example that most people could recognise. I think currency is a not bad go to in this context. (especially since they were photographing something 3 meters away as an example and also provided terrestrial examples of curiousity photographying rocks)

I call swamp gas coming from cock pump!

If I was at NASA and thinking about what would rile up a bunch of ATS'ers, I'd have taken that photo too. I'd being splitting my sides reading all these comments.

Man, I have to start coming up with stuff of my own or this site, that would be more entertaining than just reading other stuff

Originally posted by pacifier2012
If I was at NASA and thinking about what would rile up a bunch of ATS'ers, I'd have taken that photo too. I'd being splitting my sides reading all these comments.

Man, I have to start coming up with stuff of my own or this site, that would be more entertaining than just reading other stuff

Couldn't agree more. If I was working at NASA this is exactly what I would do. I would also lay the dollar bill on the pages of a book about translated mayan text with 2012 clearly visible. Of course I would ensure It had several photoshop layers as well....might even edit the EXIF date-times to say 21-dec-2012. In fact you could have wonderful time with the EXIF data if you want wind people up.

I usually am the last person to buy into these grand conspiracies but this is pretty interesting. Not the fact that they used an image using a dollar bill for an example of color and clarity that the camera has but the fact that they deliberately centered on the eye.

Most likely someone has a sense of humor of there at NASA, and that person is probably being reamed out for stoking the flames of conspiracy theorists. But you never know...

Originally posted by yorkshireladCouldn't agree more. If I was working at NASA this is exactly what I would do. I would also lay the dollar bill on the pages of a book about translated mayan text with 2012 clearly visible. Of course I would ensure It had several photoshop layers as well....might even edit the EXIF date-times to say 21-dec-2012. In fact you could have wonderful time with the EXIF data if you want wind people up.

Wasting taxpayer dollars on such frivolous nonsense. You two would be great fit working for such a bloated, bureaucratic government agency that should have been scrapped long ago.

Has anyone been keeping up with the misson ?
Think its strange that we have only recieved 2 black and whit e pics ?
I got up this morning all exicted thinking I'd get to see some nice clear couloured pics put have found that we only have higher res black and whaite pics of what was sent back yesterday.

Originally posted by Kocag
I also find it interesting that they are saying that were not going to be getting fuzzy pictures in one color like we normally get from them.

Thats all we seem to have so far lmao

only if NASA stuff up and leaves the colour guide in the pic or the rover in the pic doesnt look the correct colour then yes I will question it

you can show me were sand dunes can be blown into pyramids ?
Not being sarcastic here just is another question that I have trouble exepting there explanation