The Peter Pan, 360 degree colour panorama |
The Peter Pan, 360 degree colour panorama |
Jul 1 2008, 03:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
However for really big images like full resolution 360 degree pans the GIMP really struggles and I then use Photoshop which can handle these much better. I was trying to manipulate some large images (planet texture maps 21k pixels wide) & the ImageMagick library on a RAM-challenged old Linux box was just crashing. There's a JPEG2000 format or something which is supposed to facilitate handling large images at differing crops and resolution, but I haven't looked into that. A simple (although slow) stopgap was to create a much bigger swap file so there was enough virtual memory, & it eventually chugs through (in that case splitting the big file up into tiles). -------------------- |
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Jul 2 2008, 12:31 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 27-June 08 From: Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. Member No.: 4244 |
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Thank you very much for your answers James. Very much appreciated. I must try & few more things myself. I will be keeping an eye out for further interesting images. ( unnecessary off topic question removed ) Andrew Brown. -------------------- "I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.
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Jul 2 2008, 09:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 8-June 04 Member No.: 80 |
Do they plan to send back a panorama composed of lossless images like they did with Pathfinder later in that mission?
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Jul 2 2008, 10:13 PM
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There is a plan is to conduct a lower compression, more filters, less down-sampling pan as I understand it ( called the Re-Peter Pan ) Of course, with Pathfinder, it had 1/16th the resolution to contend with.
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Jul 2 2008, 11:20 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 27-June 08 From: Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. Member No.: 4244 |
Hi Doug,
That is going to take some time & a huge number of frames. Is there enough time left in the Primary Mission to accomplish that? What would be interesting would be a horizon pan at around the time of the Midnight Sun, do determine atmospheric light scattering, etc. Andrew Brown. -------------------- "I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before". Linda Morabito on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.
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Jul 3 2008, 01:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Jul 3 2008, 02:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
WOW! Beautiful job, Astro0!
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Jul 3 2008, 07:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Great job Astro - I'm still working on getting the deck pan added to The Peter Pan
Doug - Maybe I'm wrong but I thought the name Re-Peter Pan was just applied to the the repeated bits of Peter Pan where there were dropouts in the data the first time around. Andrew - yes it will take quite a long time - it depends just how much compression and how many filters are used - but I could imagine the horizon pan being done by the end of the primary mission. -------------------- |
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Jul 3 2008, 07:35 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Jul 6 2008, 10:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
The full colour version is going to be tricky to pull off I think, however in the meantime here is a quick greyscale version. 144 images in this!
Polar version Click image - quarter of full resolution James -------------------- |
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Jul 6 2008, 10:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Awesome work, James!
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Jul 6 2008, 11:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
Agreed. It's great James .
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Jul 7 2008, 05:41 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Well... As long as you eventually get the colored version completed, James...before the end of next week. J/k
Good work on those greyscale images -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Jul 7 2008, 06:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
James, you are a wizard!
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Jul 7 2008, 07:03 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
BBC's The Sky at Night did a great job - sent Chris Lintott out to Tuscon for a day or two and had a brilliant half hour program on BBC4 just now.
I noticed something in the background of an interview.... Notice anything cool? A nice big print out of an early chunk of the Peter Pan in there. But it's not the NASA version - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/...AAM2_newer.html - see, no black borders. It's this one - http://www.nivnac.co.uk/mer/index.php/2008...1bc-6-pointings It's JC's mosaic on the wall at PHX HQ. Like an art insurance specialist - it's all about the border A flick comparison for added 'Bloody hell, you're right' There you go James - that's twice you've been on the Sky at Night now |
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