| |
|
Article: <5fag82$pse@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Tholen Caught DOCTORING Hale-Bopp Images!
Date: 2 Mar 1997 00:05:22 GMT
In article <5f7ujq$m2s@news.Hawaii.Edu> David Tholen
writes:
>> I note you speak to the issue of "digital image
processing
>> techniques", which you state was most likely used
to insert
>> the fake-o companion into the Shramek/Bell/Strieber
>> image causing the flap. What's that process, Dave, could
>> you describe it?
>> saquo@ix.netcom.com
>
> It would be easy to clip the image of a star surrounded by
> dark sky from near the edge of the frame and simply add that
> signal level to the pixels adjacent to the comet. The
computer
> has to do nothing more complex than adding two numbers
> together.
> tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
I too am familiar with cut and paste, and the feathering that a MAC can do to blend edges. All this means that if a fako companion can be pasted into a graphic, so can a fako Hale-Bopp!