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Space/Science » in reply to Re: Webcamizing Titan

Enhancing pictures add's data that was not in the orgional

Don’t you love it when in movies they take a picture, blow up a small section, enhance the heck out of it, and get a clear picture of someone’s face?

Being a photographer, I tell you, this can’t be done. You can not add information that is not there. The smallest level in a picture you can view is the pixel level. Anything beyond that is added information- information that was not there. It’s like saying 2.3 + 2.4 = 2.7945. the 0.0945 is added information. The same hold true for anything added beyond what pixels are already in the picture.

This is what I try to explain to those people who enhance the heck out of Mars pictures and claim they see alien artifacts. You notice their evidence is always at the blurry pixel level and beyond. Then we get higher resolution picture that show no such alien structures, so these people start looking for anomalies at the new pixel level.

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