Obfuscation Awareness

[morbius]

Firstly , in this posting , many thanks to Marsrocks who has allowed uncontested freedom to present such Mars , or other , material. The subject of this first post is obfuscation or smearing and altering of an originally pristine picture . For this I have choosen a recent Curiosity: Panoramic View from " Rockness " Position . To become aware of this condition , if you will , there is a relatively simple procedure to apply and it goes like this. Download the pic and put it in your image program , Zoom a slight amount and slowly apply what is called a Gaussian Blur till a usually off-white finger-painting smear will appear. 2, slowly apply ' contrast ' ..and that's it! Usually the darker areas of a pic are visible remnants of the original pic , thus ruins , machinery , vehicles , buildings , etc. In the next post or so , will be shown how to work around this unecessary condition and produce some rather clear pictures to work on and view. I encourage the use of this simple technique , as it works on all past , present , and likely future picture releases. The attached should give some example , and encouragement , to use this system to see what may be salvageable from these notoriously deceptive official presentations of our neighbouring planet .. Mars. I would also like to bring your attention to the attachment " Gaining an Obfuscation Awareness "-What should be a relatively clear picture , has been layered with various colours that run across the pic horizontally. From the mountains and hills down to their base is a layer , then another begins , which then runs into the lighter ' fingerpainting ( forefront ) area. Still , and despite these challenging obstacles we are being confronted with , there is detail trying to emerge from this shroud of secrecy encountered. In any event , give a try on the noted technique to expose this obfuscation, and please feel free to post your successes , or otherwise , as to the results obtained ... or not. -Morbius

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[morbius]

trying again -M

[Marsrocks]

Hey, morbius. If you use the proboard image attachment function, it will only let you load one image per post - but feel free to make multiple posts in a thread.

For multiple images though, instead of doing that, I would recommend you click on the imgur link above the smileys, and upload your images there. It will then give you all the UBBC codes to put into your post.

I haven't taken a look yet at your pic - but will do that when I get a chance. Thanks.

[thewatcher]

Hi Morbius:
Im not sure of what your trying to show but showing different layers that are based around different levels of depth of fields is a little lost. You forget that the incidental lighting levels plus gray-scale maps are key. What you have shown simply has made a mess of a perfectly good image. Maybe apply what your trying to do to objects much closer and note you various filter settings. Note the surrounding tone levels and observe their changes on the fly. This may help. if you want to get into how to actually understand what the rovers are seeing and processing and make a more serious scratch at reverse engineering the images , may I suggest looking at the color filter systems deployed and understand how pixels react to stress under different levels.

I can see you put time into this... I thought it just to point out that you've kinda gone down the wrong avenue without realizing what exactly is happening. Just pull back and work first with gray-scale and with closer objects. Apply the rovers color filters individually and observe what the frequencies do to detail. After a while you'll be able to do this just by looking ;)
Cheers