Panorama Stitching, Rick Szeliski's Work Is the Best |
Panorama Stitching, Rick Szeliski's Work Is the Best |
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Sep 26 2006, 06:07 PM
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My understanding was that the public release of daily raw images was forced on the imaging team by JPL against their wishes. Be that as it may, this doesn't give Porco the right to harass private, taxpaying citizens who take advantage of the public releases. I wonder if she sends similar emails to Elachi or Griffin. |
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Sep 26 2006, 06:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
Then I got an email from Carolyn Porco... ...and Im not going to publish anything i have done from any ongoing missions anymore. /M WoW!!! So that is the untold story about that image... I have just GOOGLED UP this QUOTE Carolyn is the CEO of Diamond Sky Productions,a small company devoted to the scientific,as well as artful,use of planetary images and computer graphics for the presentation of science to the public. She is angry becase you are doing her job... Surprise!!! -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Sep 26 2006, 06:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
...and some more bad news...
QUOTE She also is the lead imaging scientist on the New Horizons Pluto/Kui- per Belt mission,launched in early 2006,which will take the first look at Pluto and other bodies in the so-called Kuiper Belt past the planet Neptune. So guys no stitching of that Jupiter/Pluto/KBO/etc objects... Maybe that is the reason why we still haven't seen first Jupiter photos from NH... There ain't no NH Raw Images site??? . .. ...weeel we could buy a poster from Diamond Sky Productions for some $$$... -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Sep 26 2006, 06:58 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
We HAVE seen the first Jupiter image - and we are a LONG way from worrying about the NH Pluto encounter - and being an encounter over a period of a few weeks, it's not analogous to MER or Cassini.
There are reasons to be upset over some things, but NH imagery is not one. |
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Sep 26 2006, 07:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Thanx! Then I got an email from Carolyn Porco... ...and Im not going to publish anything i have done from any ongoing missions anymore. Mattias, can you send me via private messaging a copy of this email? I'm not going to get in a political discussion here, but I have the ability investigate NASA/JPL policy and how it came to be and where it's going -- from the top down. One thing is certain, the MER model has been a tremendouos success and a positive PR triumph for NASA specifically and space sciences in general. I will leave your name out of it. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Sep 27 2006, 08:59 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 22-August 05 From: Stockholm Sweden Member No.: 468 |
Easy now!
Dont you all go on a rampage over this. I will still do work for every other mission i can lay my hands on. (I might even do some cassini stuff when no one is watching) Personally i think that all space data should be "For All Mankind". I think that we as a species need to look outward to solve our local problems. We need to drop our egos. Thats why i had my pictures in full resolution in my little webfolder. (currently offline due to server reconfiguration) I want anyone to be able to print them and put them on ther wall or in their classrooms or whatever so that everyone could see the immense beauty. I do however take a small fee if its supposed to go into a publication because I need to make sure that my wife thinks its worthwile having me infront of my computer all the time. Im sorry for hijacking this thread. Can we return to the issue off which panorama stitcher is the most useful? /Mattias |
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Sep 27 2006, 09:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Actually, the most useful panorama stitcher is a good straight-edge and non-yellowing tape....
If I cut up a rover panorama into printout sized segments with a few pixels overlap.. I can get nearly seamless looking strip mosaics from my $300 color laser printer. |
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Sep 27 2006, 09:59 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
When the shed-office is finished, I have two plans for 'decorating'. One is the victoria pan on the wall behind the desk - and the other is to print all the individual pathfinder colour frames, trim them out and stick it all on the wall frame by frame
Doug |
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Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Sep 27 2006, 06:56 PM
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When the shed-office is finished, I have two plans for 'decorating'. One is the victoria pan on the wall behind the desk - and the other is to print all the individual pathfinder colour frames, trim them out and stick it all on the wall frame by frame Be careful, Doug. You shed could end up looking like the shed in the movie A Beautiful Mind. You know, the scene where Alicia Nash (Jennifer Connelly) goes to the woods behind the house, walks in to the old abandoned storage shed, and discovers what John Nash (Russell Crowe) has really been doing during his "recovery." See http://www.freehomepages.com/iam27paul/bea..._mind_room.jpeg. This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Sep 27 2006, 07:03 PM |
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Sep 27 2006, 07:00 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Oops - cunning remote image link blocking...but I know the scene you mean.....yes, a little bit like that
Doug |
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Sep 27 2006, 09:27 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
There is one thing that needs to be taken into account when comparing the apparent 'attitude' of the Cassini imaging team (or at least its PI) to that of the MER team:
Public realtime (or near-realtime) release of the MER imagery was the plan right from the start. Also of significance is that the MER project was started years after the WWW started. Cassini is a totally different beast. It was started as a project before the WWW even existed. The realtime release of Cassini images was applied 'retroactively', it was never planned. I'm not trying to justify anything some of the Cassini people may have said or done but I still think this is a significant factor. That said I think Cassini may be the last mission where this is a problem. The last US mission that is - ESA still has a lot to learn. Because of this, Malmer's decision to not publish anything from ongoing missions sounds drastic if I'm correct - this is not a problem with MER images and apparently not MRO either (hopefully we'll soon know). |
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