Let's Enhance

Gigapan.org has a snapshot feature for that. 26-gigapixel is bigger than most (all?) of what Gigapan has, but they have a bunch more. The Obama inauguration one[1] is probably their most famous. I don't really ever get tired of being able to "enhance! enhance!"[2] an image. 1) [LINK] 2) [VIDEO]

Thanks to CSI and relatives, here is what the public thinks image manipulation can do: [VIDEO] The ridiculousness may be lost on you if you need an explanation why a digital image of a crappy security camera can't be used to zoom in on a reflection of an eyeball. Or of why a 2-dimensional image can't be used to construct a 3-dimensional image of the scene, that you can rotate to see objects out of the line of view of the camera.

"Uncrop" isn't from Blade Runner, it's Red Dwarf. [LINK] Which was making fun of... well, all of these: [VIDEO] :-) And everyone knows that Deckard was looking at a live feed from a video camera, not enhancing a still image.

The whole "Enhance" trope is still completely stupid. [VIDEO] [LINK] >But the Enhance Button simply ignores the fact that the big blocky pixels you get when you zoom in too close on a picture are the only information that the picture actually contains, and attempting to extract more detail than this is fundamentally impossible. No matter what you do or how you do it, you're merely guessing, if not making stuff up outright.

> The correct thing would be to do is create a chemical that kills all unwanted stuff and leaves the wanted stuff unharmed I think you stumbled into the biotech equivalent of CSI picture enhancement[0] or unlimited data storage. [0]: [VIDEO]

I hope I can tuck in this video as a gentle reminder of what we wishes we can do. Now that we are pretty much there. [VIDEO]

I didn't mean 'obsessive' as a smear, more that they were dogged in their pursuit, going as far as crunching biometrics and zooming in on a watch for evidence (enhance.. enhance.. [1]). It was an entertaining read since it looked eerily similar to how conspiracy sites construct their hilarious conclusions. And yet, it was real. Also, 'relatively innocent' was meant in context of buying instagram followers, not in cheating. > I'm more disturbed with the evident impulse to forgive. Is nothing important any more? Is character and honesty so worthless? The thing I'm most disturbed by in these threads is how easily nuance is lost to the power of righteous indignation. It's like we're reading an entirely different set of comments. [1] [VIDEO]

What's sad is that a tech entrepreneur will definitely add that feature and sell it to law enforcement agencies that believe in CSI magic: [VIDEO]

Then you can "Enhance". [VIDEO] Joking aside, this does illustrate the "magical" properties of technology to the layperson. As a corollary, failure modes end up quite suprising and hard to reason about without a certain amount of proficiency in these technologies.

“Enhance!”[0] may no longer qualify as comedy, but this[1] will never fail to entertain ;-) [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

Yes but by necessity it is making up stuff. It reminds me of: [VIDEO] and in particular the line "enlarge the Z-axis"