The Kitchen Junk Drawer, Exchanges that need to be put somewhere |
The Kitchen Junk Drawer, Exchanges that need to be put somewhere |
Oct 15 2010, 01:49 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 15 2010, 04:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
As a proud Australian...I think that conversation should stop right here.
Barry McKenzie!?! Phil, be ashamed, be very ashamed. Surely Alvin Purple would better represent us Enough! Meanwhile back on Mars... |
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Oct 15 2010, 06:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
Yes -
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Oct 15 2010, 09:19 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10157 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Oh, I'm ashamed! (heh heh) A virtual Mars Bar to nprev! I grew up with good old Bazza in the pages of Private Eye, and I still have all the books of collected strips.
OK, back to Mars. Time to point Pancam at the - uh - plains. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 15 2010, 01:21 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Indeed. (However, I'm diggin' my vMars Bar...my first! )
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 15 2010, 01:51 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10157 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Hey - we've been relegated to the junk drawer! Yeah, OK, we've finished now.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Oct 15 2010, 01:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Feel free to continue the discussion here.
This is going to be a place to put off topic discussions that start to tangle with the main discussion. If it was really bad it would get deleted. This is where we will put stuff we don't want to throw away but we need to clean up because company is coming. If anyone has a better name, "The Box Under the Bed", the Garage, whatever, we can reconsider what to call it. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 15 2010, 02:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
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Oct 15 2010, 03:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 910 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
brellis--bet you did not expect the honor of being Topic Starter for this esteemed thread
I'm sure it will be extremely useful as things tend towander from time to time. -------------------- |
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Oct 15 2010, 04:08 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
How about "Parking Orbit"?
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Oct 16 2010, 01:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 22-December 07 From: Alice Springs, N.T. Australia Member No.: 3989 |
OK, so now this is in a 'dusty' hardly read corner of UMSF I feel free to tell the true story. Astro0 has a good point about Alvin.
Central Australian logic quickly gets to the root of this logical conundrum ........ "Bazzanya, paluru wati mulupa nyinatja wiya. Palura panya nyintja wiya, palumpa photo kilipi Martja ku mantankga putu mantjilpai. Tjurkurpa nyangatja tjukururu wiya". (Pitjantjajtara is one of our lovely Centralian languages). Translated roughly as this.... "Bazza is not a real person. Since he's not a real person, then it's not possible to take a photo of him on the surface of Mars. It's not logical." On the other hand, ALVIN IS REAL. (ikaringanyina!!) |
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Nov 1 2010, 09:58 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 12-November 09 Member No.: 5039 |
Several unproductive posts moved from the "Opportunity Map" thread
Dear Tesh, do you have less strongly compressed big map? At x2, jpeg artifacts are quite visible in the image you attached, can you save it from your master file with higher quality setting? |
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Nov 2 2010, 08:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
It's already saved with almost no compression at all -- 9 in a scale of 1 (heavy compression) to 10 (no compression). If I use the next setting (10) the file size becomes almost 6MB and that's a big no, no.
The problem, as I see, is that you are trying to zoom into the map (e.g. x2) and it was not intended for that purpose. If you want to see more details as in this 1m/pix map I suggest to use Google Earth and the route map in its KML version. |
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Nov 2 2010, 09:35 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 12-November 09 Member No.: 5039 |
It's already saved with almost no compression at all -- 9 in a scale of 1 (heavy compression) to 10 (no compression). If I use the next setting (10) the file size becomes almost 6MB and that's a big no, no. The problem, as I see, is that you are trying to zoom into the map (e.g. x2) and it was not intended for that purpose. If you want to see more details as in this 1m/pix map I suggest to use Google Earth and the route map in its KML version. What I see is definitely JPEG artifacts (blocking). Re "quality 9": yes, quality 9 will have some distortions. But it's not true that quality 9.5 is not possible. Do you mind trying other program to do the conversion? For example, in Gimp JPEG compression can be set with finer granularity - the scale is not 1..10 but 1..100. I use 95 for photos where I do want negligible data loss. |
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Nov 2 2010, 10:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Yes there are jpeg artifacts - but so what? The purpose of the image is to show Oppy's current position, that is more than clear enough.
The map is downscaled from the full HiRISE image so it is not really the best thing to look at in detail, artifacts or no artifacts. If you want to look closely at the terrain then do as Tesheiner posted previously and look at it in GE. Then you get the full 25cm resolution. Remember that the map gets posted time and time again and in the end this takes a lot of space that has to be hosted/backed up, so making the file sizes bigger is not desirable. -------------------- |
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