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Friday 05 February 2010
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3D Computer Animation
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Pluto - Computers Have Great Imaginations
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Hi,
I saw this article about Pluto. If you read the details (after the hype) they say this:
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To build the new portraits of Pluto, Buie's team gathered 384 Hubble images of the dwarf planet between 2002 and 2003. But in each image, Pluto appears only as a tiny dot of light. So the team employed a technique called “dithering” to generate images slightly offset from each other. The individual images emerged after seven years of processing on 20 homemade computers running in parallel.
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Dithering? Dithering?
Dithering = Noise (Random) = We have no idea what Pluto looks like.
Question: if we can't see one of our own planets properly, how the heck should we believe anything we "see" that's billions of light years away.
45 year old men in white lab coats with PhD's should not be taken too seriously. Some of them, for example, are bankers.
Cheers, D
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