{"id":15497,"date":"2007-10-11T21:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T21:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/10\/undersea-photography-ancient-anatomy-more.html"},"modified":"2007-10-11T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T21:54:39","slug":"undersea_photography_ancient_anatomy_more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/undersea_photography_ancient_anatomy_more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Undersea photography, ancient anatomy, &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of cool scientific &amp; technical imaging has popped up recently: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photoshop&#8217;s Twirl filter is no longer a bastion for Internet creeps: The NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/08\/interpol-untwirls-a-suspected-pedophile\/?hp\">shares some (but not all) details<\/a> of how Interpol was able to reverse the common image distortion.&#160; Now they&#8217;re seeking the public&#8217;s help in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interpol.int\/Public\/ICPO\/PressReleases\/PR2007\/PR200745.asp\">catching the guy<\/a>.&#160; [Via Leon Brown]&#160;&#160; (Through some weird cosmic alignment of forces, Google Alerts happened to pop up a tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piticstyle.com\/2007\/10\/08\/censored-photo-adobe-photoshop-tutorial\/\">digitally obscuring faces<\/a> at just the same time.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bountyfishing.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/photoshop-and-fishing-dont-go-hand-in-hand\/\">Photoshop &amp; fish tales<\/a>: digital imaging &amp; sport fishing don&#8217;t go hand in hand, according to BountyFishing.com.&#160;The NYT has more info on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/02\/science\/02conv.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">how these folks worked with Prof.  Hany Farid<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/01\/image_authentication.html\">previous<\/a>) to detect misrepresentations. [Via Rob Corell]<\/li>\n<li>Edited by documentary filmmaker Claire Nouvian, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0226595668\/boingboing0e-20\">The Deep<\/a><\/em> &quot;features more than 200 photos of the insanely strange and beautiful denizens of our oceans.&quot;&#160; Smithsonian.com features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/multimedia\/photos\/?c=y&amp;articleID=10033636&amp;page=3\">small gallery<\/a> of the images, plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/deep.html\">an article<\/a> covering the project.<\/li>\n<li>Nikon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/\">Small World<\/a> competition has been honoring terrific microscopic photography for more than 30 years.&#160; Check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/gallery.php?grouping=year&amp;year=2007\">gallery of this year&#8217;s winners<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Photos-Fine-art-photography-from-the-microscope\/2300-11395_3-6212253.html?part=dht\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s fun to compare these modern depictions of the natural world against <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/arcana-entomologica.html\">Arcana Entomologica<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/handbook-of-animal-anatomy.html\">Handbook of Animal Anatomy<\/a>, both courtesy of BibliOdyssey. <\/li>\n<li>Elsewhere in the world of archaic technical materials, the National Institutes of Health have posted high-res scans of public domain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/historicalanatomies\/browse.html\">anatomical atlases<\/a>.&#160; I used to love incorporating stuff like this into my designs.&#160; (<em>Thanks<\/em>, dead artists of antiquity!) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/04\/free-old-anatomical.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Science Magazine has announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2007\/10\/03\/2007-visualization-challenge-winners\/\">2007 visualization challenge winners<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>NASA&#8217;s Cassini probe is sending back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Photos-Scientists-unlocking-Saturn-moon-mysteries\/2300-11397_3-6212921.html?part=dht\">detailed pictures of Saturn&#8217;s moons<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>One other NASA note: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/externalflash\/ISSRG\/\">International Space Station site<\/a> picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2007\/oct\/HQ_07220_ISS_Web_Award.html\">a 2007 MAX Award<\/a> from Adobe.&#160; The site features 360-degree views of the inside of several space station modules, and the first update is due to go live tomorrow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of cool scientific &amp; technical imaging has popped up recently: Photoshop&#8217;s Twirl filter is no longer a bastion for Internet creeps: The NY Times shares some (but not all) details of how Interpol was able to reverse the common image distortion.&#160; Now they&#8217;re seeking the public&#8217;s help in catching the guy.&#160; [Via Leon Brown]&#160;&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}