CaSSIS will provide high - resolution 3D
colour images of the surface of Mars that will help us to understand the processes occurring at the surface (or within the subsurface) that may be contributing to trace gases in the Martian atmosphere.
Not exact matches
This directs the
coloured film to the regions
of bare
surface between the fingerprint deposits, thereby creating a negative
image of the print.
The instrument will obtain stereo
images of the
surface in
colour at a resolution
of better than 5 m.
«The
images have confirmed the sensitivity
of the instrument and are sharp,» says Antoine Pommerol, co-investigator
of the
Colour and Stereo
Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS)
of the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University
of Bern.
In this way, the
surface of the material can be tuned so that each pillar reflects a different
colour, ultimately allowing different
images to be printed (Science Advances, doi.org/b6tw).
Most
of the
images from Rosetta have been in black & white, so these
colour ones are a nice change and show incredible detail, including patches
of water ice on the rocky
surface.
The Mars Camera, officially known as CaSSIS (
Colour and Stereo
Surface Imaging System), aboard the European Space Agency «s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured its first high resolution
images of...
«Koi», a mirror
Image of carp on the
surface of the water, repeated and bought to life with
colour filters to give a playful and exotic print.
In addition,
image quality is limited by a resolution
of just 1280x720 with no anti-aliasing, while alpha effects were rendered at a low resolution, textures suffered from in -
surface colour banding, depth
of field was mostly removed, shading was often inaccurate, and HUD elements were stretched.
Amorphous shapes, sharp - edged logos, scything blocks
of colour and silky veils
of tinted varnish intrude into Stubbs» picture planes, fragmenting the
surface; it is as though the physicality
of the works are coming up against the pixilation
of the flattened, immaterial space
of the digital
image.
Depicting ex-military sites, industrial warehouses and transportation routes, the flat
surface of the photographic
image is expanded, incorporating light, metal framing and manipulated
colour schemes.
The artist's subtle play between
surface and depth, material and
image,
colour and texture registers a tension between the familiar and the unknown, akin to an experience
of language forgotten and almost remembered, or a melody lodged deep in the unconscious.
He works from photographs and drawings, creating collage - like compositions, and then experiments with different ways
of drawing out the aspects that interest him — whether highlighting the
surface detail or distant object, or by painting a version
of the
image as a blocked - out negative
of flat
colour.
And what is so remarkable is that the very loss at its core — a portrait is a person here, but not here — is countered by the slow lyricism
of the work: Gorky's mother is brought back from annihilation, held in the bounding contours and gentle
colour, her momentary
image indelibly fused with the painting's hard - won
surface.
In contrast to his previous work, where contemporary elements act as incisions into conventional frameworks, here the planes
of colour lie on the
surface of the paintings as colder adaptations to the underlying
image.
In Freischwimmer (2004), thin skeins
of colour drift and curve, misting into dense clouds
of pigment before unravelling and dissolving across the
surface of the
image.
The works
of the three artists picture a feeling
of longing as a place, a three - dimensional
image, as plain,
surface, material,
colour, effect, taste, time, a moment
of happiness, but most
of all as a projection.
In Figure by a Pool (2008 - 2012) and Walking Figure by Pool (2011), which are essentially the same
image painted in different
colours, I couldn't help but see a slight nod to Hockney in subject matter, though whereas Hockney emphasises the harsh, bright
surface of things in his swimming pool paintings, what makes Doig's paintings so distinctive is what he does to the
surface — how he draws attention to and manipulates the texture and palette
of his
surfaces; not flattening them out, or making them uniform, but dividing them up to create intriguing and, at times, unsettling contrasts.
Similarly, in Cricket Painting (Paragrand)(2006 - 12) oil paint is laid on the canvas in acid hues
of orange, green and blue, the
surface flecked in places with splashes
of paint, so that action
of the
image — a girl lobbing a cricket ball that hangs in the centre
of the canvas like a white, full moon towards a boy waiting at a wicket — becomes secondary; a compliment to the dynamism and energy
of the
colours» relationship.
It is a changing portrait
of society, pictorial space animated by the moving backdrop
of the room as well as the
coloured ink
image which since 1973 has been directly silkscreened onto the
surface.
With technical virtuosity, Glenn Brown's practice copies and modifies reproductions
of works
of art, imitating the painted
surface in a perfect illusion, while being completely devoid
of texture and further manipulating the
image through variation
of colours.