11th June 2005, 1:53 AM
Yeah, some sort of "recrapification gauge" would be nice. Well, TVs already have that. Most TVs I've used do have a sharpness altering thing. The TV has a normally fairly crisp image (relative to it's poor settings I mean), but you can reduce it to a very blurry image pretty easily. In fact, I purposefully did that when I played RE2 on N64, and it made the FMVs look a LOT better. My brain filled in the details that just didn't exist instead of the TV pretty much making it obvious that it's blocky as hell.
Oh by the way, any, ANY, image enhancing software HAS to ADD stuff to the image that was NOT in the original image. At a certain level, it's just impossible to enhance the image without out and out creating a complete fiction. What I'm saying is, it's impossible for Batman to enhance a blurry white spot in a background into perfectly legible text since that text was not in the original image, and even if the software did make some text out of it, it would be random and wouldn't help the Bats at all. And, for that matter, any blurry pics you see of Mars that are analyzed at the PIXEL level (and normally they are analyzing JPEGs at that, notorious for compression induced artifacts) have NO data to offer, so whatever crazy junk those quacks offer about alien civilizations is bunk, BUNK I say! Give me a bag full of Martian droppings or SHUT UP! I have no idea how I went from one topic to the other... oh yes I do, it was on my mind before I came here :D.
Oh by the way, any, ANY, image enhancing software HAS to ADD stuff to the image that was NOT in the original image. At a certain level, it's just impossible to enhance the image without out and out creating a complete fiction. What I'm saying is, it's impossible for Batman to enhance a blurry white spot in a background into perfectly legible text since that text was not in the original image, and even if the software did make some text out of it, it would be random and wouldn't help the Bats at all. And, for that matter, any blurry pics you see of Mars that are analyzed at the PIXEL level (and normally they are analyzing JPEGs at that, notorious for compression induced artifacts) have NO data to offer, so whatever crazy junk those quacks offer about alien civilizations is bunk, BUNK I say! Give me a bag full of Martian droppings or SHUT UP! I have no idea how I went from one topic to the other... oh yes I do, it was on my mind before I came here :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)