It is an ultimate desire of
everyone who is interested in outer space, to visit the red planet once. A
Finnish filmmaker has collected some NASA images from the red planet and made a
superb short video, this video shows the glimpse of red planet and takes our
heart out. The name of Filmmaker is Jan Fröjdman, he transformed images from
HiRISE, a camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, into a video using
over 33,000 reference points.
The thing which has made his
work prominent, is he made this video without using Al software. Fröjdman
explained: “There is a feeling that you are flying above Mars looking down
watching interesting locations on the planet. There are really great places on
Mars! I would love to see images taken by a landscape photographer on Mars,
especially from the Polar Regions. But I'm afraid I won't see that kind of
images during my lifetime.”
These are very high
resolution images and anyone can view in 3D using special glasses. From the
planet's orbit, the powerful HiRISE camera has snapped 50,000 spectacular,
high-resolution stereo images of the Martian terrain.
The images itself were very
stunning but Fröjdman decided to improve them by turning them into video. Instead
of using automated software, he decided to make the video carefully by hand.
He admitted: “It has really
been time-consuming making these panning clips, in my 3D-process I have
manually hand-picked reference points on the anaglyph image pairs. For this
film I have chosen more than 33.000 reference points! It took me 3 months of
calendar time working with the project every now and then.”
The colors in this film are
false because the anaglyph images are based on grayscale images.
He explained further: “I
have therefore color graded the clips, 'But I have tried to be moderate doing
this. The light regions in the clips are yellowish and the dark regions bluish.
The clips from the polar regions (the last clips in the film) have a white-blue
tone.”
He stitched the images
together along his reference points and rendered them as frames in a video, to
create the 3-D effect.