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  1. hobbit

    hobbit Senior Member

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    Some of you with newer Macs might recognize this.
    It's expanded and enhanced about as well as I could manage in Gimp.
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    I'm not staring down her cleavage, I'm trying to figure out what's on
    her shirt. Is it English? Arabic? Math? Impossible to determine
    from this? If anyone has better hints about recovering small image
    details from parts that were shrunk to about three pixels wide, let
    me know. I tried several resize interpolations; bicubic kept the
    most detail and from there it was pretty much a matter of sharpening
    radius, but there's just so much you can do.
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    Maybe some of you net-stalkers can find out who she is and just ask!
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    _H*
     
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  2. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    What's the picture have to do with newer Macs? I ask because if the picture's on my wife's Mac I could scrutinize it for myself.
     
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  3. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    My guess is English, and it looks like a dictionary definition of a word ending in 'ous'.
     
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    I think it says "Stop looking at my boobs" in a few languages.
     
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  5. jayman

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    (pant .... pant .... pant ... pant .... droollllllll .....)

    Huh? There was writing on the tee?

    H, my friend, you're asking the wrong guy here. Under oath, I couldn't even positively state that women have noses or eyeballs
     
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  6. dogfriend

    dogfriend Human - Animal Hybrid

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    Looks like Greek to me. Literally. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc.
     
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    jtlytle Caution: Prius owner

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    What shirt?
     
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    nerfer A young senior member

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    It must be pretty easy to do, I see it in the movies all the time, particularly movies from the early 90's. I watched Species last weekend, and they were able to enhance a grainy security camera picture into a clear image of Natasha Henstridge (there's a movie for you, Jayman - she's even Canadian I just found out). MacGyver's friends could do that too.

    Somehow it never works the same for the pictures I need to enhance...

    But if it's part of a video, there might be some averaging algorithms out there. I have an astronomy friend who can get really clear pictures of actual heavenly bodies by taking dozens of pictures (all aimed exactly the same way at stationary, low-light subjects) and running it thru one of these algorithms.
     
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  9. jayman

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    I liked that photo enhancing scene in BladeRunner a lot better. Oh, and BladeRunner is light years better with the Director's Cut, I really hated that annoying Harrison Ford voiceover

    MMMMmmmmm heavenly bodies ......
     
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  10. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    That shirt is annoying isn't it?
     
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  11. jayman

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    Yes, terribly annoying
     
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    OH, the writing ON her shirt. I was trying hard to read the tattoo inside.
     
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  13. jayman

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    :pound:

    Poor Hobbit. He innocently asked a legitimate question, and the PriusChat Perverts (tm) ran it right off the rails!

    What else can I say?

    Baaaa!
     
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    nerfer A young senior member

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    But does BladeRunner have Natasha Henstridge without annoying shirts?
     
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    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    its "wingdings"

    if you dont know what that is, its a font language of icons and symbols invented by microsoft...and when you think about it, that is exactly what any self-respecting Apple programmer would put on the new Mac
     
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  16. jayman

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    Well, no, but there is that scene in BladeRunner where the female snake charmer takes a shower, and we get a realy nice gander at her chest
     
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  17. jayman

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    :rolleyes:

    Oh boy, that's so weird it *has* to be true. Now I'm curious what her shirt means, once translated:

    "Stop staring at my enormous boobies!"

    "For rent by day, week, or month"

    etc

    Note: in this context, "booby" refers to a funny looking bird

    [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby]Booby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

    That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
     
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  18. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    You guys need to get out more.

    Hang in there, Jay, spring in Winnipeg is only months away. ;)
     
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    I think I see a bar code on her bikini strap.
     
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  20. jayman

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    I agree. Pesky cold climate makes that difficult

    Had a brief warm spell, so had a taste of +3 C weather. I will agree that cabin fever is very seriously setting in ....

    :smow:
     
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