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The Kitchen Junk Drawer, Exchanges that need to be put somewhere
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post Oct 15 2010, 01:49 AM
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Ha! Barry "Bazza" McKenzie?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_McKenzie


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post Oct 15 2010, 04:11 AM
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As a proud Australian...I think that conversation should stop right here. dry.gif
Barry McKenzie!?! Phil, be ashamed, be very ashamed. Surely Alvin Purple would better represent us laugh.gif

Enough!

Meanwhile back on Mars... mars.gif
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post Oct 15 2010, 06:03 AM
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Yes - mars.gif
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post Oct 15 2010, 09:19 AM
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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.

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post Oct 15 2010, 01:21 PM
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Indeed. (However, I'm diggin' my vMars Bar...my first! wink.gif )


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post Oct 15 2010, 01:51 PM
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Hey - we've been relegated to the junk drawer! Yeah, OK, we've finished now.

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post Oct 15 2010, 01:54 PM
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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.


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post Oct 15 2010, 02:45 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 15 2010, 08:54 AM) *
....we need to clean up because company is coming.....
Right on!


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post Oct 15 2010, 03:46 PM
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brellis--bet you did not expect the honor of being Topic Starter for this esteemed thread laugh.gif

I'm sure it will be extremely useful as things tend towander from time to time.



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post Oct 15 2010, 04:08 PM
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How about "Parking Orbit"?


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post Oct 16 2010, 01:38 AM
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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. laugh.gif (ikaringanyina!!)
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post Nov 1 2010, 09:58 PM
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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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post Nov 2 2010, 08:13 AM
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It's already saved with almost no compression at all -- 9 in a scale of 1 (heavy compression) to 10 (no compression). huh.gif 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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post Nov 2 2010, 09:35 AM
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QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Nov 2 2010, 09:13 AM) *
It's already saved with almost no compression at all -- 9 in a scale of 1 (heavy compression) to 10 (no compression). huh.gif 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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post Nov 2 2010, 10:57 AM
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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. smile.gif

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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