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

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From: clp...@alumni.caltech.edu (Chris L Peterson)
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Subject: Re: At least the JWST's "colourist" isn't a flamboyant artist
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by: Chris L Peterson - Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:09 UTC

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.

New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt.

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Re: At least the JWST's "colourist" isn't a flamboyant artist	Chris L Peterson