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(04-12-2019, 12:39 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:It's still CGI.
Do you mean CGI in the literal sense of a "Computer Generated Image"?
A computer may display the data as a digital image but a computer did not generate the digital image, that is the key difference as far as I can tell! I realise it's a bit of a pedantic lexical ambiguity but that is just a problem of language.
If you were discussing an image produced by the earlier simulations, then CGI would be a correct way to describe it as the image is generated by the computer simulation. But the image is displayed is measurement data displayed as an image, the computer doesn't really generate the data it just displays it.
Another real achievement of this process is that the measurements confirm the accuracy of the simulations, those simulations are like a prediction based in maths and physics, somebody preemptively thought about it and got it right! The models/simulations take into account how stuff like Dark Energy and Dark Matter should work/interact but not what they are, 85% of the universe we cannot see but we indirectly detect, the real imaging and measurement matching the earlier simulation is a big deal for the reason it confirms we know how these things might interact on the large scale, and even if we do not know what they are we can still detect them! Smart Cookie, was it ours?
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More like computer processed image than computer generated image.
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(04-12-2019, 11:47 AM)Professer E link Wrote:More like computer processed image than computer generated image.
Yes, one is based on data, the other on imagination.
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Either way, it's still amazing and gives us specs of dust an insight into far off phenomena.
From 'seeing' far off worlds to teaching certain proteins to attack certain cancers in our bodies (rather than chemo) there certainly are some incredible things being discovered at present.
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