JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Alotta Fagina" wrote in message
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You wrote:
Alotta Fagina wrote:
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Anyway, it's a picture of the East Coast taken at night - it's like
one mass of light - amazing image.
I'll find it and scan it.
http://www.darksky.org/images/satelite/usa_1996-97.gif
That's not a picture.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...ghts1994-1995b
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Neither is that.
How are they NOT pictures????
They're not photographs - they're generated outputs of some sort of
undefined measurement. Without at a minimum knowing precisely what was
being measured, they're no more "pictures" than are Rorschach inkblots.
Just curious - would you consider an MRI a "picture"? How about an
X-Ray? Or an oscilloscope display? Most normal people wouldn't, even
knowing what it is those devices measure and what their outputs
represent.
Is this a picture?
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth...almeesters.jpg
Yes. It is probably also a photograph of a picture and a photograph of
a painting, a picture of Rembrandt, and the original would be considered
a very valuable painting.