Re: Guth Venus / Brad Guth and the hot planet 2.02

[Brad Guth]

On Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:12:55 AM UTC-7, Brad Guth wrote:
> Attention all you smart K12s plus anyone else that cares to see for
> themselves what our government agencies and insiders would much rather
> you didn’t: Finding Waldo on Venus is actually much easier said than
> done, but otherwise finding a substantial tarmac plus large scale
> infrastructure that looks perfectly rational is really easy.
>
> This "IrfanView" image processing utility is somewhat like being
> digital image potty trained, as well as having been 5th grader
> approved and thus as good as any LeapFrog pop-up book can deliver.
> Not that any number of equal or better digital image methods for
> enlarging haven’t existed as is, but here's simply yet another old one
> that has been perked up so that not even a 5th grader is necessary to
> operate it. If you can click your mouse or one finger type on a
> keyboard, that's pretty much all the image processing expertise you'll
> ever need.
> IrfanView
> http://www.irfanview.com/
>
> PhotoZoom Pro (mac and pc)
> http://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php?page=downloads
>
> The original GIF image file:
> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hires/mgn_c115s095_1.gif
>
> If you’d care to first crop out and save the most interesting 10%
> portion at 1:1, as I've so often instructed (gives roughly a 64 k
> image file that’s a 100% clone of the original without having all the
> surrounding image to deal with), whereas the automated enlargement
> process runs ten fold faster, and perhaps another ten fold faster yet
> if using XP instead of Windows 7 (but that's not my fault).
>
> Of course Apple/MAC users are not without as good or better
> alternatives than PhotoZoom. However, this radar obtained image is
> just offering a basic monochrome file of 651 k, of not all that many
> pixels to begin with. So, a 10x enlargement is still going to be
> relatively efficient and otherwise simplified, in that not even a 5th
> grader is required, and because such software doesn’t care what image
> context it is processing, there’s nothing weird or unexpected going to
> happen unless you have a faith-based or some other dysfunctional
> naysay kind of problem.
>
> Virtually all digital cameras and photo printers of any significance
> come packaged with a basic photo resizing/enlarging along with their
> automatic zoom filtering utility for delivering sufficient image
> enlargement results that do not modify or otherwise skew the image
> data. Commercially or via government agencies should have far better
> zoom/enlarge or image resampling results that are certainly available
> to those with either the necessary loot or having their inside
> connections for using such.
>
> Start looking for our Venusian Waldo or whatever else looks unusually
> of local intelligence somewhere near that complex tarmac, or perhaps
> he/she is over near that large clover shaped reservoir that’s
> connected to that other reservoir, or how about near the natural fluid
> arch if not around that impressive bridge or just nearby any number of
> other large scale infrastructure (including those rectangular rock
> quarry sites situated just north of that bridge). There’s at least 5
> gold stars plus a million other points to go along with your name as
> given full credits for finding Waldo. (K-12 team/class efforts are
> allowed, because there’s lots of observationology credit to go around)
>
> Do your own image enlargement and post a link, or pretend you care by
> doing absolutely nothing.
>
> Brad Guth / Blog and my Google document pages:
> http://bradguth.blogspot.com/
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddsdxhv_0hrm5bdfj

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