A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars
March 24, 2017 4:39 AM Subscribe
A Fictive Flight Above Real Mars - The anaglyph images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera holds information about the topography of Mars surface. There are hundreds of high-resolution images of this type. This gives the opportunity to create different studies in 3D. In this film I have chosen some locations and processed the images into panning video clips. There is a feeling that you are flying above Mars looking down watching interesting locations on the planet.
Where are the albino apes and egg-laying women?
posted by mushhushshu at 5:48 AM on March 24, 2017
posted by mushhushshu at 5:48 AM on March 24, 2017
Very cool! So the anaglyph originals are available from U. Arizona. There is a lot I'm not sure about from the making-of description.
It sounds like Fröjdman separated the stereo pairs of pictures, and chose a sequence of new reference points at which to successively make the two pictures line up (e.g. a rocky outcrop in both pictures overlaps perfectly at that spot). I'm not sure how, but maybe that sequence of points corresponds to the line of sight from the (moving) camera. Then the two pictures for each point in the sequence are processed in the same way that your brain sees 3d from anaglyphs when you wear the glasses (I'd like to see that code) and finally the sequence of processed views is stitched together?
posted by TreeRooster at 8:15 AM on March 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
It sounds like Fröjdman separated the stereo pairs of pictures, and chose a sequence of new reference points at which to successively make the two pictures line up (e.g. a rocky outcrop in both pictures overlaps perfectly at that spot). I'm not sure how, but maybe that sequence of points corresponds to the line of sight from the (moving) camera. Then the two pictures for each point in the sequence are processed in the same way that your brain sees 3d from anaglyphs when you wear the glasses (I'd like to see that code) and finally the sequence of processed views is stitched together?
posted by TreeRooster at 8:15 AM on March 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
No way, just a few days ago I was browsing through the HiRISE image catalogue and slowly scrolling down the long photograph strips pretending I was in a dirigible, thinking about how cool it would be for someone to do exactly this.
posted by lucidium at 6:05 PM on March 24, 2017
posted by lucidium at 6:05 PM on March 24, 2017
Eerie, elegant, provoking, mysterious, that bullet hole impact crater with gunpowder markings, the center oriented massive net like pattern, like the map of an ancient metropolis. What a thing.
posted by Oyéah at 6:13 PM on March 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Oyéah at 6:13 PM on March 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
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