The
faked photo has five major features:
1 The Sphere
2 The Clouds
3 The Space
Intersection
4 The Shuttle
Texture
5 The Hole
We will examine these features and then
Zoom
in on finer details --to deconstruct this fake.
Your suggestions on what I missed or may
have got wrong would be appreciated. eMail
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1 The Sphere |
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That light blue curve delineates a sphere behind those
clouds. It's the closest thing to a real globe in the image. To
it's right is a deep blue triangle, which in the prime image,
covered the entire area around that sphere. That's what
the fake photo creators started with: a light blue sphere
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Taking
a closer look at the triangle which is the only part of the
deep blue background we can still see, you notice that a line
has been drawn which angles down at around 55 degrees to the horizontal.
The purpose of the line was to mark off the area to it's right
for the yellow textured area.
The two don't quite match up, so you get an effect similar to
the color bleed seen in poor quality lithographic reproduction.
But it's not a litho effect --it's just due to poor lining up
between the pre-drawn line and the textured area.
But that line was the third element added. First the clouds were
overlaid on the sphere and background. Let's see...
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2 The Clouds |
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Time
to use your imagination ! Just picture those clouds extending
under the "shuttle" all the way to the right hand side
of the image. Here's a quick botch I did to give you the idea.
Yes, I know it's a pathetic effort. But this stuff's hard.
Especially when you are under time pressure. Just ask the photo
fakers! They know. Give me a break. :)
Well..., early in the construction, the image was clouds
--all the way-- in the lower half of the image. I mean ALL
the way. Down into that black space I just covered. This image
was starting to look good, back then. Scroll back up to the numbered
image --to picture the effect in it's full glory.
The 55 degree line was only drawn in after adding the clouds,
in order to mark off the area where the "shuttle" was
to go.
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3 The Space
Intersection |
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A
bad error here. At normal view this looks fine, but zoom in
and you clearly see the black area is overlapping the yellow.
It should have been aligned correctly with the 55 degree line,
but it comes across it by a few pixels.
This was pretty inexcusable as the black space was the easiest
to get right. A curved line was placed over the cloud area first,
and made to look like the horizon of the Earth by filling in.
The three should have intersected properly but instead it's a
big giveaway.
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4 The Shuttle
Texture |
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Adding
the "shuttle" texture in was where this image started
to go all wrong. The yellow speckles all over the clouds here
seem to indicate a color match was used. Texture is overlaid by
matching against either existing hue, RGB value or brightness.
It always messes up, and you need that 55 degree line to stop
it blending the whole image. The line was thickened here too.
This is very difficult to get right. Whatever went wrong you can
see the evidence here and it probably explains the dark area to
cover the worst mistakes.
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5 The Hole |
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What else
could you call it? Through here you can see an area which
has same hue and appearance as the cloud to the left.
Here also, where the 55 degree line runs down --just to it's right,
is some blue/green background under the yellow texture. This feature
shows up along much of the length of the line.
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Zoom Details |
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Yet another
problem. To understand why, you have to know how the software
in a digital paint program works.
An effect like that line, must be painted on using a 'spray can'
feature, because drawing a straight line would be entirely unconvincing.
So, what happens in the depths of the software when you arc your
hand along a photo as you spray?
The program subroutine will compute a pixel by pixel transformation
to generate the image you see on the screen.
The super-zoom detail in our photos shows you what actually happens.
As your hand moves, the software computes the new color of the
specific pixel across which you are moving and the pixels
around that pixel. The new color will depend on the existing color
of each pixel before you start.
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does so, by selecting a grid box as tall and wide as your current
spray can setting. Paint programs let you choose the size of the
spray. If your current choice is a rectangular spray 5 pixels
by 5 pixels, that means that as you move, the software is evaluating
a 25 pixel grid around the specific pixel you are over
at any time.
The key point is this: each pixel in that 25 pixel grid
will be altered slightly -depending on the current spray settings.
The software starts in the top left corner of the 5x5 grid box
and works line by line to the bottom right corner.
Because every pixel will be altered --even the ones at the corners
of the box a distance from the visible line-- that leaves an
unmistakable pattern of boxes that follow the arc of the line.
Just as you see in our super-zoom reproductions of the Maariv
photo. And the process leaves gaps where your movement was jerky.
Seen also.
The images shown are BMP (Bit Mapped Pixel) from the original
53k image --to avoid GIF or JPEG distortions.
Finally. let's note that the
name of the JPEG on Maariv was Columbia%20comp.jpg. The
%20 is the ASCII Code for a blank space, and comp......means composite.
Exactly !
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Back where
we started,
but wiser. |
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Starting at 1 with the Sphere
and it's deep blue background, we see that 2-Clouds
and then a 55 degree line were added -but it all got messy at
the 3-Space Intersection.
Then the 4-Shuttle Texture
was added or dropped in but somehow left a
5-Hole. Finally the "cracks" were added --which
the Zoom shows were most certainly
digitally created
I'm sure it could have been done better, but when the pressure
is on, mistakes occur. Better luck next time NWO.
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Fintan Dunne,
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With comiserations to Jeff Rense for not getting the picture;
And grateful thanks to
Steve Myers
Page1News.com
for being first to front-page
the story on gut instinct even
before this part was written.
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