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  • At least the JWST's "colourist" isn't a flamboyant artist

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 23:30:17 2023
    He was keen to get across the point that the IR to visible conversion is done with the science taking the main place with the "artistic" part second. In other words, they haven't punched out the visual colours where it would distort what should be the
    true representation of the object in the infra-red. More important is to keep the intensity scale accurate.

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 11 07:09:12 2023
    On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:30:17 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3128@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    He was keen to get across the point that the IR to visible conversion is done with the science taking the main place with the "artistic" part second. In other words, they haven't punched out the visual colours where it would distort what should be the
    true representation of the object in the infra-red. More important is to keep the intensity scale accurate.

    There is no JWST colorist. Each imaging project is managed by
    different people with different science and visualization goals, and
    the data is publicly accessible and has been processed by a great many amateurs, as well.

    What you mean is that you like the aesthetics of what one particular
    person is doing.

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