{"id":559,"date":"2013-06-13T21:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2013\/06\/13\/using_software_to_rectify_a_photo_about_mechanical_photo_rectification\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:34:38","slug":"using_software_to_rectify_a_photo_about_mechanical_photo_rectification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Using Software to Rectify a Photo About Mechanical Photo Rectification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/oowarp.jpg\" target = \"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/warp.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\nOriginal caption: <i>St. Louis, Mo. &#8212; RECTIFYING A LUNAR PHOTO &#8212; Mr. Ralph Wilson of the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center uses photographic equipment to rectify a composite of Lunar Orbiter Photos. Rectification is accomplished by tilting the composite on the easel until the crater and other features can be photographed at a predetermined angle. (U.S. Air Force Photo).<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/warp.s.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\">Keith Cowing:  I found this photo on eBay. As you can see it was warped. So I used Photoshop to do a quick <i>&#8220;rectification&#8221;<\/i> so as to present the photo as it would have looked if it was laid flat.  Back in the Lunar Orbiter days they did not have Photoshop &#8211; so they had to use this mechanical \/ optical process &#8211; one that had a clear military heritage.<br \/>\nClick on top image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original caption: St. Louis, Mo. &#8212; RECTIFYING A LUNAR PHOTO &#8212; Mr. Ralph Wilson of the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center uses photographic equipment to rectify a composite of Lunar Orbiter Photos. Rectification is accomplished by tilting the composite on the easel until the crater and other features can be photographed at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Software to Rectify a Photo About Mechanical Photo Rectification&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-image-hacks","category-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}