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Stereoscopic images of Titan's surface constructed
CozmsBrpng writes "If you can successfully view stereoscopic images then you can behold the surface of Titan in all its grainy 3D glory. And, in case you missed it, you can also listen to a human ear-friendly version of the descent radar and the winds in Titan's atmosphere courtesy of the DISR team at The University of Arizona."
Really, there wasn't enough relief in those pictures to be worth inducing several thousand splitting headaches across the globe.
After all, I am strangely colored.
If you can't see it, you know what you need? What you need is a fatty boom batty blunt. Then I guarantee you'll see an ocean, a sailboat and maybe some of them big-tittied mermaids doin' some of that lesbian stuff.
Don't try to view these pictures if your refresh rate is 60Hz. My vision blurred up for about three minutes and I started freaking out.
I find it easier to print stereograms like these. Perhaps even re-position them really close to each other in GIMP before printing it out. they seem to be easier to "lock on" on paper than on screen. There's just no way I can see them on screen.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I still say Titan is interesting, but it's not the ticket that's going to inspire the everyday person to learn more about the possibilities of Space research. I love the adventure of truly great scientific endeavors, but more people need to be inspired for NASA to get the funding it deserves IMO.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
Oh yeah, look it's a sailboat.
I can't see stereoviews, I only have one eye.. you insensitive clod!
You already have the equipment. Just cross your eyes while looking at it until your eyes focus and click. You'll know what I mean when you get it right.
After all, I am strangely colored.
I can imagine millions of slashdotters around the world all going crosseyed at this. Brilliant :)
Firstly, it would be beneficial if the images were separated by a black space. Having the images touching each other requires being a 'real' pinhead for viewing. Secondly, if wearing glasses, take them off; as the lenses of the glasses (which are doing what they are meant to do ... focus each eye independently), do not lend themselves to viewing stereoscopic images.
I'm good at them, and I still couldn't get much out of those besides a headache. Here's a bunch of better ones, just to show that they don't suck universally.
Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively.
Relax let the stereoscopic image flow through you.. Master I just can't see it. Relax your eyes you must.. Master it's impossible. Know you already what is possible and what is not? But I'm trying, I just can't see this teapot or whatever. hmph do or do not, there is no try.. ...grumble...grumble
I sense much anger in you..
...stereoscopic images of Uranus.
With very slight additional effort these researchers could have released a terrain model based on the paralax offset of features in the image and saved us all from straining our eyes.
The Titan imaging results are simply fantastic. Huygens landed in an area that is analogous to a terrestrial dry lake bed wetted by an upland stream network fed by methane rain! How often does it rain? Are there large weather systems on titan? Convective storms? What about the black stuff on the lake bed and at the bottom of the streams? What is it made of? Is is particulate like terrestrial sediments? I am a little disappointed that we haven't heard more speculation from project scientists. I think the Cassini/Huygens project has been somewhat guarded about releasing preliminary results than the Mars Rover project.
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Also for some people it may help of you open the images in a photo editor, cut out one of the images and move it to the other side, then all you need to do is cross your eyes until the two images meet. I've always found it easier and less straining on the eyes if you do it this way.
Personally, I prefer wiggle images, where you make an animated GIF of two close-by images. You don't have to hurt your eyes, and it gives you a good idea of depth. Here's a web site with several "wiggle images" made from Mars Rover data:
http://space.brownpau.com/mars-rover-wiggles/
1500 imaginary mod points to whoever uses GIMP or Photoshop to cut the individual images out of the photos of Titan, makes an animated GIF out of them, and posts them online.
I don't mean to belittle the accomplishment of getting the probe to titan, but as a lay person, none of the images that have come back have been all that impressive. What is the technical reason for this? Is it a bandwidth issue? Or were these launched long enough ago that this quality of images was state of the art for spacecraft?
- These pairs seem to be taken with different filters. This would, at least, explain why the two images seem to emphasize different details.
- divergent stereo??? divergent stereo is WAY harder to do than cross-eyed stereo. Many people can't do divergent without mechanical aids (especially with larger images). My mothe, who'se an optometrist thinks that it's almost impossible (compared to cross-eyed stereo)
- I'm not ssure if they're corrrectly rotated. For stereo images like this, the horizontal line should be coplanar to the location of the two lenses used to take the picture. I'm guessing that the pictures were just chosen for the leftmost and the rightmost, but no matching rotation was done.
(Just an FYI: I used to own a stereo camera (stereo realist) I've still got a thousand or so images in my archive. Since losing the camera, I've also done my own setero pairs 'the hard way', so I've gotten reasonably good at doing this)If anybody knows the layout of the peobe well enough to draw the line which would be coplanar to the two lenses, I'd be happy to rotate the images (and swap them, too, if need be)
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
Jigglevision is a simple technique that makes it easy for even cyclopses to percieve depth in pairs of stereo images. No headaches or eye strain or anything.
About 10% of the population is stereo-blind, and most stereo-blind folks don't even know it. It's not really a serious disability - except in cases like this.
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To make things easier, here is a reconstruction with instruction.
Just sit back about 2 feet from the monitor and try to cross your eyes till you get something similar to the bottom group.
If there is a good response to this, I'll do the others.
Otherwise, you may be able to do them on your own after training with this:
Stereo Image of Titan with Training bars