Here is a small Gallery of colored MOC images as a tribute to the phantastic Voyage of the MGS spacecraft for bringing home such visions of an alien, frozen world made of red dust and black dunes


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Absolutely fantastic!

Wonderful images and a great tribute.

You should consider adding MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems) to the credit line.

TTT

Gorgeous stuff. It should be in a real art gallery. At a minimum it deserves a special web page.

Mike

Beautiful gallery in honor of a beautiful gal, MGS!

No idea how you DO that, just glad you do.

You're the Master when it comes to those colourisations, without a doubt...

Nirgal...
You are one of a kind!!!

Simply Beautiful. I am in awe.

Craig

Truly splendiferous. Both hemispheres of my brain thank you for sharing these.

Thank you all so very much for the overwhelming feedback
I really wish I could spent more time with the imaging work and the UMSF forum recently ...



Yes I've lways been thinking about a dedicated web page ... but unfortunately haven't really found the
time because I put literally every free minute of spare time in the work on the images (and writing the supporting software tools ) themselves so that this leaves no more ressources for the administrative tasks
of maintaing the web site stuff


Done.
Thanks for the hint (I accidentally used the credit template for the MER images

Very beautiful, and truly amazing
It's gorgeous.

I'm curious to see how you do to process this pictures

A very nice tribute

Art at its best !
Je suis ébloui

In French? Okay

C'est magnifique, merveilleux, le couleurs sont vraiment délicieuses. Les paysages sont grandioses.

Un grand bravo! Quel hommage

In Korean for Nirgal: hwansanchogida!!! (Fantastic!!!) A truly inspiring and fitting tribute; may she enjoy her well-deserved rest.

Merci Beaucoup et 고마와요





Well actually there is no single recipe for how I do the processing of the images.
This is because the problem of coloring a single-channel b/w image is, unfortunately, an inherently "ill posed" task that does not have a unique solution (obviously because for each grey tone (luma component) there are many different possible color values (chroma component).
So, basically, what I'm trying to do is to work with many pre-chosen palettes of color hues collected
from "real" true color composite photographs of areas with similar surface composition etc.
and try to assign color hue ranges to grey-scale ranges.
However, this process involves a great part of guessing, tweaking, trial and error and last not least
the support of a collection of special software tools that I wrote (partly for fun when trying to
play with new image processing algorithms based on neural networks and various 3D color space transformations ) for example special adaptive brushes that help me with fine-selecting & masking parts of
the images by automatically following contoures/edges and so on.

All in all its tedious but geat fun and relxation to work with those colors & images: it always reminds me of the joy I had as a child when coloring pictures in the painting book