Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by capableweb on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:19PM
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Yeah, that's not very good implementation. PetaPixel usually have good content, but using a GIF to compare these two images? Come on! You can see the compression artifacts very easily.
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Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by yreg on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:28PM
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How about this one, by a user from here?
Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by boriskourt on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:39PM
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This is a great way to show all the new distant details. Amazing to think that so many of the artifacts in Hubble's total darkness are galaxies upon galaxies.
Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by HedgeGriffon on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:19PM
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Umm.. not compression artifacts. GIF uses lossless LZW. Maybe color palette artifacts since GIFs are usually palettized and not true color (although with a tortured use of local color tables they can even be true color)
Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by capableweb on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:16PM
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This is the nitpick we all come here for :)
Choosing a limited palette in order to save bytes, some might say is compression. If said compression hurts the image quality, some might call that "compression artifacts".
The point stands, GIF was a poor choice for the format here.
Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by deelowe on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:45PM
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This was also recently posted on reddit: https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/
Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by jonplackett on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:02PM
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Was J J Abrahams involved in Webb, because it really seems to produce nice lens flair
Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution...
by capableweb on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:47PM
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What you're seeing is not lens flares but diffraction spikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
You could call those lens flares I guess, but commonly known as diffraction spikes when it comes to telescopes. In this case they appear because of the supporting struts in the James Webb telescope.