Yup - I agree with your position on the 857 image but converting that to a position on the route map is not so easy as neather of the features you mention can be seen - or have you spotted something I haven't?

Wow! Great job cleaning that up Ted.

My first foray into the world of polar projections...

Here's where I think we are on sol 860 - based on the tracking data, there aren't many 'islands' in sight to get a fix on at the moment.

James

I'll try and cover for you Tesh.

Snap!

Does that mean I get to take all the sols posted so far?

879

Oh good, I obviously read too much into your first diagram!

Should be spectacular.

James

Fantastic as always Stu, thanks

Latest McMurdo - 20 columns- with full resolution option this time (17Mb!) (don't worry, there are smaller versions as well)

Still needs a bit of contrast matching work and the artificial sky/horizon boundary is not perfect. But this was mainly a test that I could actually make the full res version in perparation for the finished product.



Cheers,

James

If possible I would print the whole thing as one and then mount it on a curved (or angled) background. I would be worried that by printing three seperate panels your eye may be drawn to the seams and make the anaglyph harder to view.

When you say 'like the origonal location' I guess you mean angled to reproduce the fov of the image. Your are aware that that image is already 200+ degrees around, so you'd need to wrap it around a lot more than your picture implies? While viewing the full 360 from inside a cylinder would be very cool I'm not sure how well it'd work in practice, I find it easier to view if you 'step back a bit', which wouldn't be possible in this case. I guess you can always test what you can get way with once its printed.

James

Photon Transfer Calibration again.

It was mentioned before wrt the navcam around here

James

Feel free to use either of mine* - I'll be making a bigger version of the McMurdo one once all the data is taken. And maybe an updated version with the most recent data in a few days.

With mine, be aware that if you print them too large the L/R offset on the horizon could become quite big and I suspect that it is impossible to view anaglyphs unless the offset is less than the seperation between your eyes.

*On one condition: you take and send some pics of the event.

Cheers,

James

I do all my processing on a 1.67GHz G4 Apple PowerBook with 1Gb RAM - It's slow for big mosics, but gets there in the end.

James

Good to hear you can see it Shaka.

Same with me, going back to a prominant rock if I loose it, and after a while I was able to see all the way across to McCool hill, a great view.



If you manage to grab one let us know how you did it, I've been trying all afternoon but they seem just out of reach!

After the positive response to my McMurdo 3D colour pan, i've gone back and done the same for Gibson:



I know quite a lot of you have problems viewing these and need to re-register them but after looking at this for long enough I can see the 3D across this entire single image even at the highest resolution.
Try harder!

Note: The pan needs to be projected in the rover frame to get it to work so no nice flat horizon.

Cheers,

James

I think it varies from person to person, I made the colour anaglyph with the red and cyan channels aligned at the bottom as I find it really hard to see the near field in 3D otherwise. Maybe multiple versions are needed!

James

Thanks.

Your righ about the colour - it takes my brain a while to get to grips with mixing the different colour channels coming from each eye. it does get better the longer you look at it.



Yeah, it's basically a mix of R1 and R2.

James

I'll see what I can do Nico.

Problem is that you need a colour pan from the right pancam, particularly because you are seeing both the blue and green channels through your right eye. I suspect then, that it is very important to have R1 (the only 'blue' filter on the right pancam) which not many pans have.

The other option is for us all to turn our glasses round the other way, this would make much more sense given the way the pancam filters are arranged!

btw: Gibson has R1

James

Thanks Michael.

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I do find it a little tricky to view sometimes as your eyes have to focus on the near screen but the pointing of your eyes needs to be different (more parallel) than normal. What works for me is to look at a largeish rock in the middle distance and then let your eyes defocus a bit and wait for it to come. And as Shaka says it is easier with a smaller version.

I may do a version without the near field and align the feaures closer together which should make things easier, and allow higher res versions to work (for some of us )

James

OK folks, this is quite cool.

McMurdo colour in 3D.



James

Looks like there was a small problem with positioning the right pancam filter wheel on sol 867, it's a little out of sync.

Most noticeable in this one (arc across the top) but it is visible in all the R pancams taken on sol 867

I think it's the electorincs box for the micro imager. There are similar shiny boxes next to all the cameras.

Your wish is my command Bob



This is the first anaglyph i've ever attempted so comments for improvement are more than welcome. The right eye pan is also far from perfect, a very preliminary attempt.

But at least it *does* seem to work

James

Yeah, thanks Airbag, I know just putting the tracking data up wasn't really answering the question but I was busy and knew some fine UMSFer would do the nessesary Googling.

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I thought I'd join Horton and Ant and put another McMurdo image or two up.

Latest L234567 Colour - 58 Pointings (that's 348 images)



Latest L7 - 69 pointings. Projected as a full 360 pan centered in the direction not taken yet to show the gap still to be filled - we're getting there - slowly.



Enjoy,

James