blueprints!!!!

Amelia, you were interested in blueprints I believe? I extracted,
de-perspectivized and deskewed these then made multiple color separations
and then averaged the useful ones back together with a greyscale. I also
faded Straker's shadow out some and nailed it a few times during the
process with an unsharp mask. Considering the source I think it came out
nicely. It's in the files area:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SHADO/files/HS-print.jpg

Does anybody know which episode the source frame is from, is it in our new
DVDs and I just missed the scene or is there only the still?

It was pretty tough but an interesting challenge, not much detail was left
in the posted one, that's why I'd like to try again with better source if I
can get it. I examined it very carefully and concluded this about the
picture: It is a compressed JPEG of a film/video picture, shot off-angle
in only part of the frame. it depicts a faded blueprint that was made from
a roughly handled vellum drawing. (I can explain how I got all of that
offline to anyone who cares.)

If I can get multiple captures from multiple sequential frames of video
(especially with the camera stationary) I may be able to get considerably
more resolution, but the single still image was badly degraded at the size
needed to see the blueprint. Lots of JPEG artifacts. With multiple frames
I can average many of them together to reduce noise and deviation. We do
this in astronomy pictures all the time, its usually just called "stacking"
and it can improve resolution by a factor of 10 sometimes.

Marc, is that the only resolution available? could you send me one with
higher (highest) resolution and preferably no compression or lossless?
(JPEG compression is OK if set all the way down to 2, TIFF is good) I know
I'd like to see more of what this is a drawing of. I don't suppose if you
have laserdisc or DVD of the video and would be willing to do a bunch of
captures, frame-by-frame for as much of the scene as you can stand?...
Would you? even 4-10 successive frames would allow me to stack. Please.
:-) I'd take 30 of them if you (or anybody) would/could make them.

"GOT*SKY?"
Shawn Kelly
www.sdaa.org
www.darksky.org


http://ufoseries.com/charProfile/d2-ex-chprof05.jpg

>AAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I hadn't seen this shot! What's that from?
>Blueprints!

>Amelia, you were interested in blueprints I believe?

Uhh, I believe Amelia was interested in what was standing NEXT
to the blueprints... :-)

>Does anybody know which episode the source frame is from, is it in our new
>DVDs and I just missed the scene or is there only the still?

This is a publicity photo from TIMELASH, when Straker and Lake were
walking around on the studio set trying to figure out why everything
was frozen.

>If I can get multiple captures from multiple sequential frames of video

It's a publicity photo, not a frame capture... most likely with the
frame captures it would be difficult to make out any detail...

>Marc, is that the only resolution available? could you send me one with
>higher (highest) resolution and preferably no compression or lossless?

I'm not sure why you're so interested in this blueprint -- after all,
it's not a blueprint of SHADO HQ or anything... it's probably something
that was lying around at Pinewood Studios from some other production!

But in any case, here's a higher resolution scan from the pages
of TV ZONE issue #10:

http://ufoseries.com/blueprint.jpg

Marc (a bit mystified by this blueprint obsession)

[hidden email] wrote:
> UFO almost had more content missing than it had content present in
> it. It reminds me almost of archaeology, the investigation of
> something on a closer basis, a slow, tedious process sometimes, to
> achieve knowledge and better understanding. The seeing pieces of a
> jigsaw puzzle and wanting to see the whole.


What you say about missing content is very true - for example I
would LOVE to see an astronaut board an interceptor. We just don't
know how it was done. Or I should say - "might have been done".

Unlike the case with archaeology, which can provide clues and
sometimes answers to historical puzzles, there are actually no
answers to be had. Rather than an incomplete jigsaw puzzle, UFO is
more like an unfinished painting, whose creator had no idea what the
finished work would look like. No matter how long we scratch away
at the blank parts of the canvas, we will never discover long-lost
artwork underneath.

Anyway, it's most probable that these blueprints were just a
random architect's drawing that was used for the publicity still.
No-one ever expected it to be scrutinised on personal computers,
thirty years later.