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The renderings are amazing looking! It makes Jupiter looks like an evil planet.
by pwaivers 9y ago
The renderings are amazing looking! It makes Jupiter looks like an evil planet.
- Scarbutt 9y agoI think that's the fault of the infrared thing.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoInfrared is by definition not what you would think of as a color. The colors in that picture are false, and a stylistic choice made during the rendering process. It would be just as accurate to use shades of blue and make it look icy. Perhaps more accurate as the upper atmosphere portrayed here is very, very cold.
- craftyguy 9y agoThose aren't renderings, they are composite images made from photographs taken of Jupiter using an infrared camera on the Juno spacecraft.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoWhat word would you use for composite false-color images produced by a computer if not "renderings"?
- bnegreve 9y agoIt really depends on how you define picture. I guess you could argue that it is still a picture in the sense that it is captured using an array of sensors that are sensitive to some electromagnetic waves. edit: Wikipedia defines photography as "the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material [...] It could fit
- craftyguy 9y agocomputer "renderings" has a very specific meaning, creating images from 2D or 3D models. I would call this a 'composite image.'
- Godel_unicode 9y agoYou might wish to check out the below Wikipedia page, specifically the section titled "types of color renderings" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color