Lunar Orbiter Imagery On The Big Screen
Lunar Orbiter Imagery Presented on NASA Ames Hyperwall 2, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
“Last week one of the images retrieved by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was presented on the NASA Ames Hyperwall visualization system. The image that was presented was a portion of the floor of crater Copernicus taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 11 August 1967. Specifically frame 5151_H1. FYI at the native resolution of this restored image and the resolution of the individual monitors used in this hyperwall, we’d need 50 – yes fifty – hyperwall 2 set ups to show this LOIRP image at its full resolution.”
The HyperWall needs an upgrade. Its so 2001. 🙂 All that grid. There should be a 3×3 or 4×4 grid at most. Panels are pretty big now.
Data recovery from the Lunar robotic missions is very cool and frankly, I’m very grateful that a group has recovered it. There are a lot of old data reels (mag tape) laying around that will likely be lost.
Our image would cover at native resolution 50 of that size hyper wall…
Which image ? 🙂
The largest image to date shown on the wall is 1,000,000 x 500,000, a worldwide mosaic of 30 m/pixel Landsat images…
-Tim
Our Lunar Orbiter V mosaic of Copernicus. Not claiming that it is the biggest, just what its resolution is. The native resolution of that hyperwall 2 (at 1600 x 1200 is 25,600 x 9600)
Big, but same resolution as each small screen, which means lower DPI. Each of those 128 screens is 1600×1200. Until you can get retina-display DPI in 100 inch screens, this wins.
Agree. That came to mind after making the comment. But for someone standing 5 to 10 feet away, they cannot discern a single pixel. If one walks within a foot along the wall then you can appreciate every pixel. Human eye determines how many pixels are needed, pixel size. I understand that if you need the pixels, the small screens with the present grid is the choice. Newegg- 90″ screen has 1920 pixels, so you’d reduce the number of pixels by a fourth but reduce the grid/frame to just a 4×4. Color rendering and contrast is probably improved today over the present wall monitors.
He’ll see the big hyperwall!