@sharponlooker
The movement has gained traction lately. It's only a mater of time for all horizons to be straight again 🤪
Seriously, I can't see the point for spending so much time to get colors right, and then neglect lens distortions and rotation of the frame, as if tile would somehow be natural, just to have a rectangular frame. It makes no sense.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. Scratch that. Those who can't, philosophize. The spectators cheer and applaud and throw in comments.
So I do what I can, like, #TheStraightHorizonPolice 👮 . Here is the beautiful image of @stim3on from Sol 879, leveled according to its quaternion in metadata and slightly processed for my eyes. SUPERCAM was tilted -4.63°.
#Perseverance attempted to drill that Ouzel Falls soft rock for a second time. Results don't look good, again. It appears it drilled into the patch it had abraded a few weeks ago. Notice the 16° slope of the ground.
Here is my take on the dust devil @kevinmgill discovered hiding in a NAVCAM image. The image is roughly undistorted but precisely leveled 🤓 . A context map with a possible location follows.
Piercing through the haze of those faint ocher images #Perseverance captured on Sol 792, and just downlinked, reveals the eastern rim of Jezero Crater and the summit of Jezero Mons.
@stim3on
Mmm! Beautiful colors! Can't compete with such processing 🙂
#TheStraightHorizonPolice are happy, though frequently wonder why people paying so much attention to colors sometimes pay so little to distortion and orientation. E.g., here are your beautiful images at a ... slightly altered orientation and distortion 😀 Are they acceptable? Assuming of course that the intent is to present artful pictures to people, not to do photogrammetry with them.
@stim3on 😆 ! No, no, they are very well intentioned, just a little more bad ass than usual 😜
As always, what's important is a matter of preference or point of view, or what one feels is worth a compromise. And there, #TheStraightHorizonPolice can only present their case to the public as a critique of space art, of sorts, not enforce hijabs or censorship😇
Hopefully, through such public discussions space art can find ways to be more expressive and fulfilling.
(what a mouthful, that last one!)
I stitched one of the regular sky mosaics from Perseverance. Very noticeable is the decreased brightness of the atmosphere towards the zenith because it is very thin. https://flic.kr/p/2oxPaot
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß