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[djellison]

Someone's given me an idea.

I dont pretend to make Scientific pictures - I am out to make ones that I consider to be the most aesthetically pleasing. Some of you may have seen the book 'Full Moon' - I want to do the same for the rovers.

Do you think it would work as a book? What would you want to see in it?

I'm thinking lots of colour mosaics - some MOC images of the lander and the landing site - some maps of the route's roved to localize the images included. Perhaps even some of the more interesting Navcam images.

this isnt something I'd consider until the PDS release of all data when I could then make some top notch images without the limitations of the 'auto exposure' that they suffer at the moment.

Anyway - I'd love some comments on the idea - as I think it could really really work - and without any disrespect to any of the other people doing similar sorts of things - there's some amazingly technically accurate work out there - but I dont think anyone's made stuff as beautiful as the more recent Spirit mosaics I've done. I really think this is something I could do - and I could do very very well.

What do you think?

Doug

[dvandorn]

I think it's a great idea, Doug! However, I would also include a bunch of anaglyphs AND a pair of 3D glasses. I had a copy of the book NASA generated about the Viking landers (it got lost in a basement flood, unfortunately) that included both a rich supply of anaglyphs and a pair of 3D glasses in the back of the book.

In fact, if it's possible to manufacture a book that would successfully use the neutral-color polarization 3D anaglyph process, that would be even better. But IIRC, that only works with film projectors.

I wish I could find a pair of the 3D glasses these days -- I'd love to be able to view the anaglyphs that are being posted at the MER website, but I don't have the glasses I need to do so...

Doug
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