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Posted by: Nirgal Apr 17 2007, 09:32 PM

Here is a small Gallery of colored MOC images as a tribute to the phantastic Voyage of the MGS spacecraft for bringing home such visions of an alien, frozen world made of red dust and black dunes smile.gif

http://www.thethirdplanet.de/tribute_MGS/E0101076d_col.jpg
E0101076

http://www.thethirdplanet.de/tribute_MGS/E0101132a_col_b.jpg
E0101132

http://www.thethirdplanet.de/tribute_MGS/M0100220_col.jpg
M0100220

http://www.thethirdplanet.de/tribute_MGS/M2101642c_col.jpg
M2101642

http://www.thethirdplanet.de/tribute_MGS/PIA08757_col_d.jpg
PIA08757

http://www.thethirdplanet.de/tribute_MGS/R0010_M2001664_col_f1.jpg
M2001664

Posted by: tedstryk Apr 17 2007, 10:56 PM

Absolutely fantastic! wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif

Posted by: Tom Tamlyn Apr 17 2007, 11:44 PM

Wonderful images and a great tribute.

You should consider adding MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems) to the credit line.

TTT

Posted by: mhoward Apr 18 2007, 12:09 AM

Gorgeous stuff. It should be in a real art gallery. At a minimum it deserves a special web page.

Mike

Posted by: brellis Apr 18 2007, 12:50 AM

Beautiful gallery in honor of a beautiful gal, MGS!

Posted by: Stu Apr 18 2007, 06:53 AM

No idea how you DO that, just glad you do. ohmy.gif

You're the Master when it comes to those colourisations, without a doubt... smile.gif

Posted by: ustrax Apr 18 2007, 11:18 AM

Nirgal...
You are one of a kind!!! biggrin.gif

Posted by: belleraphon1 Apr 18 2007, 12:28 PM

Simply Beautiful. I am in awe.

Craig

Posted by: lyford Apr 18 2007, 04:20 PM

Truly splendiferous. blink.gif Both hemispheres of my brain thank you for sharing these.

Posted by: Nirgal Apr 18 2007, 05:29 PM

Thank you all so very much for the overwhelming feedback smile.gif
I really wish I could spent more time with the imaging work and the UMSF forum recently ... smile.gif

QUOTE (mhoward @ Apr 18 2007, 02:09 AM) *
It should be in a real art gallery. At a minimum it deserves a special web page.
Mike


Yes I've lways been thinking about a dedicated web page ... but unfortunately haven't really found the
time because I put literally every free minute of spare time in the work on the images (and writing the supporting software tools ) themselves so that this leaves no more ressources for the administrative tasks
of maintaing the web site stuff sad.gif

QUOTE
Wonderful images and a great tribute.

You should consider adding MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems) to the credit line.

TTT

Done.
Thanks for the hint (I accidentally used the credit template for the MER images wink.gif

Posted by: Ant103 Apr 18 2007, 05:44 PM

Very beautiful, and truly amazing ohmy.gif ohmy.gif ohmy.gif
It's gorgeous.

I'm curious to see how you do to process this pictures wink.gif

A very nice tribute smile.gif

Posted by: climber Apr 18 2007, 07:12 PM

Art at its best !
Je suis ébloui

Posted by: Ant103 Apr 18 2007, 08:00 PM

In French? Okay biggrin.gif

C'est magnifique, merveilleux, le couleurs sont vraiment délicieuses. Les paysages sont grandioses.

Un grand bravo! Quel hommage smile.gif

Posted by: nprev Apr 19 2007, 02:44 AM

In Korean for Nirgal: hwansanchogida!!! (Fantastic!!!) A truly inspiring and fitting tribute; may she enjoy her well-deserved rest. smile.gif

Posted by: Nirgal Apr 19 2007, 09:10 PM

QUOTE (Ant103 @ Apr 18 2007, 10:00 PM) *
In French? Okay biggrin.gif

C'est magnifique, merveilleux, le couleurs sont vraiment délicieuses. Les paysages sont grandioses.

Un grand bravo! Quel hommage smile.gif

QUOTE
In Korean for Nirgal: hwansanchogida!!!


Merci Beaucoup et 고마와요 smile.gif smile.gif

QUOTE
No idea how you DO that, just glad you do.


QUOTE
I'm curious to see how you do to process this pictures


Well actually there is no single recipe for how I do the processing of the images.
This is because the problem of coloring a single-channel b/w image is, unfortunately, an inherently "ill posed" task that does not have a unique solution (obviously because for each grey tone (luma component) there are many different possible color values (chroma component).
So, basically, what I'm trying to do is to work with many pre-chosen palettes of color hues collected
from "real" true color composite photographs of areas with similar surface composition etc.
and try to assign color hue ranges to grey-scale ranges.
However, this process involves a great part of guessing, tweaking, trial and error and last not least
the support of a collection of special software tools that I wrote (partly for fun when trying to
play with new image processing algorithms based on neural networks and various 3D color space transformations ) for example special adaptive brushes that help me with fine-selecting & masking parts of
the images by automatically following contoures/edges and so on.

All in all its tedious but geat fun and relxation to work with those colors & images: it always reminds me of the joy I had as a child when coloring pictures in the painting book smile.gif smile.gif

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