Terminator 3 Images
Bertoldo Beyer
I am visiting the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington today and am enjoying their warm hospitality (thanks Emily!). I have a little breathing room now so I thought I would write a quick blog post.
The publisher, Taylor and Francis, was unhappy with my use of the terminator image. Two of the people editing the collection, Xihong Lin and David L. Banks, did their best to help me in my quest to use the image. This is the image, in case you forgot:
Warner Brothers quickly wrote back and said they did not own the copyright. They directed me to a company called Intermedia. I then asked Intermedia if I could use the image. Here is the image, in case you forgot:
But my attempts to contact Intermedia failed. It appears that they went broke and were bought by a hedge fund. Next we tried to reach the hedge fund but were unsuccessful. My only option at this point was to remove the image from the article. The image, by the way, looks like this:
There is a picture of the moon in National Public Radio's on-line article Get Ready For Halloween By Watching The Moon's 'Occultation' Tonight. It looks wrong to me - specifically, the brightness gradation near the terminator - or lack thereof.
And here is a NASA/JPL image from for 2016-10-19 04:00 UT, which if I uderstand correctly is not actually a photograph, but simulated from LRO data. It also illustrates that the terminator is expected to be graded from light to dark and contain contrast from shadowing.
The original article you cite has a link just below their image indicating the source of their image of the moon. That source is the night sky planner, hosted by JPL. You'll find the same image on that website, albeit slightly darker (it seems the NPR people lightened up the image a bit).
After a bit of digging, I found out what exactly is going on here. The purpose of this site is to show you the current phase of the moon. To do this, they take a single image of the full moon and artificially shade out a region to make it appear as the current phase of the moon. You can see their process here and how it was done by some guy named R. Schmidt. They've broken down the moon phases into 181 images which you can download here, if you're interested.
As you can see, the terminator on that image is wrong because it is not a real image of the current phase of the moon, but rather a computer generated "shading" of the full moon to indicate the current moon phase.
This image presents a remarkable view of the North Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the equator and westernAfrica northward to Iceland and Greenland, with sunset occurring over Scandinavia, France, Spain, Algeria, Mali, and the Ivory Coast. As youlook at this image, think for a moment about how it was made. Is it a photograph? If so, was it taken from space? Is it a painting, a map, orsomething else?
Clues to interpreting this image can be found in features in the ocean, the clarity of the atmosphere, the appearance of land features indaylight and dark, the geography of the terminator (line of sunset), and the perspective (or field-of-view) of the image.
This photograph taken from the International Space Station shows the shallow sand bars to the west(left side) of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. The water there is only a few feet deep. To the east (right side) the seep water is a pureblue-no subsurface features are visible. (Image ISS004-E-8777 courtesy NASA-JSC Gateway toAstronaut Photography of Earth.)
This classic photograph was taken on December 7, 1972 by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward themoon. The belt of vegetation that crosses Africa below the Sahara is very dark because most of the sunlight is absorbed by plants forphotosynthesis. (Photograph AS17-148-22727 courtesy NASA-JSC Gateway toAstronaut Photography of Earth.)
Since the Earth is spherical, the terminator should always appear to be an arc when viewed from space, or a straight line if seen fromdirectly above. But, in this image, the terminator changes shape, from a straight line near the bottom of the image to a curve at the top. Theterminator changes shape because the curved surface of the Earth has been projected onto a flat surface, just like a map.
The bright gold lights of New York City and its surrounding suburbs stand out in this nighttimephotograph from the International Space Station. The bright surfaces of clouds and snow are revealed by moonlight. (Photograph ISS006-E-18382 courtesy NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.)
The image itself was generated by the Earth and Moon Viewer, a Web-basedtool that produces Earth imagery from several perspectives. The Earth daylit and night time images were developed by The Living Earth.
I use terminator and recently, I tried to add a background image to it through the option provided in preferences, and for some reason the image that it is rendering is a bit shady and the colors are a bit off. I have also attached the images to specify the same.
Close up of a reprocessed avi video images taken on 22nd February just gone, showing from the top the crater Rhaeticus, and running down the terminator to show the Lunar X formed from the combination of crater rims from the craters Purbach, La Caille & Blanchinus. The craters Stofler & Faraday can be seen just off the terminator at the bottom of the image. Image taken with my ZWO ASI 120 MC camera, using my Celestron Omni 120mm f8.3 refractor. Processed through PIPP, Registax, & tweeked in PS CC. Screenshot below image is taken from ios app Moon Globe HD for crater details.
It's plate solving for lunar images and it's marvellous. A few rough first tries attached to show with an early evening image from the 7th. The geometry is a little off as I only entered a rough time of capture but you get the idea. It knows libration too so accuracy is good.
The right click contextual menu has a useful 'find and label nearest feature' option as well as 'nearest feature and all features sharing same name' which is how these labels were generated rather than automatically as in the first 2. (This one really shows how poor my calibration is with reference points and time but you get the idea)
It can also read LRO/LOLA elevation data allowing contours to be applied and generating a pseudo 3d view at your image scale/field of view for that time from your location - the contour map shows I still need to work on calibration accuracy a little.
Blend various versions of each using adjustment layers and you produce an enhanced view that shows off the relief and the variation in intensity of the ejecta blanket quite nicely thank you. A better image will produce better results I'm sure but this'll do for a start.
This one is most interesting. There was a thread a while ago, one of @xtreemchaos mosaics I think it was where there was discussion about producing a composite showing the terminator across all of the moon, sort of a full moon detail mosaic.
This is just a section and it's low resolution but I think you can export sections to a texture file at higher resolution. I think this will throw up some interesting challenges around libration and illumination but it's worth a go just to see!
Version 2. This is good. Tomorrow I work on producing cylindrical projections of as many 'terminators' as possible, compositing them with better quality in Photoshop and then see what happens from there.
Underneath is an animation using the same image, projected as it would have appeared on each day of April. Thus, libration is achieved. Keep an eye on Vlacq down in the southern highlands near the terminator to really see the effect of libration.
I've put together a few animations of sunset with correct libration as well, again using DEM data blended with one of my images for the texture which has come through especially well in the Copernicus animation.
A script in LTVT takes care of producing the frames but the close ups 'wander' thanks to libration. A quick run through an imageJ plugin named 'align slices in stack' which corrects for this and you have a stablised view representing what you'd see at the eyepiece using a tracking mount (If you had the time, and the clear skies and fortitude to observe over a few days of course)
Thanks for sharing, any tips on installing this beast, had me pulling my hair out...First installed it, won't let me enter observing time, won't access images, have to get reference images elsewhere or join something, weird. Any help appreciated. Uninstalled it, might try again, third try fails and it can go to the moon, life's too short.
Via Variety, The Terminator Zero anime series will drop eight episodes all at once via Netflix on Aug. 29, 2024. Masashi Kudo, well-known for his work on Bleach as a character designer, episode and animation director, is credited as director for the series. Terminator Zero was conceived by Mattson Tomlin, with other executive producers including David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger. Readers can check out the first-look images of Terminator Zero below.
Popular anime studio Production I.G will animate Terminator Zero. The studio is behind several of the most high-profile titles, including Ghost in the Shell, Psycho-Pass, Heavenly Delusion and Haikyu!!, whose latest movie The Dumpster Battle recently received an international theatrical release date from Crunchyroll. The studio is currently behind the popular Kaiju No. 8 anime series and may be known to fans of Western films for its work on the animated portions of Kill Bill: Volume 1.
American companies are ramping up production of adaptations of popular Western IP. Terminator Zero follows the long list of Terminator titles, while Warner Bros.' Japanese division recently confirmed the release window of Suicide Squad Isekai, bringing together many of the most popular DC villains and anti-heroes. Rick and Morty fans also look ahead to Rick and Morty: The Anime by Japanese studios Studio Deen, Sola Entertainment and Telecom Animation Film.
Created and executive produced by Mattson Tomlin and executive produced by Skydance and animation studio Production I.G, Terminator Zero will drop all eight episodes at once on Thursday, August 29, introducing audiences to a new group of characters, some of whom appear in the first-look images for the sci-fi series.
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