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Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by ceejayoz »

izzydata wrote: post #27
kvgr wrote: post #6

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Why are some people so narrow minded? Different style, get over it. Not everything SciFi must be "true scifi like Star Trek". This rant reminds me of Big Bang theory.

Star Trek is true scifi? I always considered it to be soft scifi due to it being more about social issues in space rather than the more hard scifi about the fictional science. At least the book of Project Hail Mary is closer to hard scifi than Star Trek as they spend a lot of time describing the science. The movie rightfully skips most of this tedium in favor of a beautiful spectacle. This is the first time I've hear…

Star Trek is largely fantasy.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by johnbarron »

austinthetaco wrote: post #25
inaros wrote: post #22

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This is hn not reddit. This feels like a wildly out of place and inappropriate comment for this kind of discussion.

The movie got 12 posts here on HN, pumped by Amazon Studios within the day of release but suddenly it cant be discussed?

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by vintagedave »

DorkyPup wrote: post #28

This is incredible and wonderful news, huge congratulations! As someone who works at the intersection of design and engineering, the detail about delivering "starless versions" so the credit typography doesn't compete with the bright stars is exactly the kind of invisible technical problem-solving I love reading about on here. On a personal note, I find it very refreshing to hear that a major studio opted for real ca…

I'm curious how the starless versions are created. From the steps at the end, I couldn't see a 'this is how stars are removed' step. Maybe it's part of stacking (but most stars would remain present?) or the calibration process treating stars as noise?

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by superchink »

j_bum wrote: post #15

Incredible work, OP. What a proud feeling you must have. Congrats!! My wife and I saw the movie this weekend, we thought it was great. I adored the book, yet I recognize a book can’t be perfectly translated to the screen. I thought the directors did a good enough job at translating the sci-fi into something the masses would enjoy. Kudos to you

Would you recommend reading the book first?

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by austinthetaco »

johnbarron wrote: post #33
austinthetaco wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is hn not reddit. This feels like a wildly out of place and inappropriate comment for this kind of discussion.

The movie got 12 posts here on HN, pumped by Amazon Studios within the day of release but suddenly it cant be discussed?

If you have some proof of astroturfing you should write a blog and then share on hn, it might make for a very good post here. otherwise it feels wildly inappropriate (not to mention incredibly unlikely that they would spend marketing money on astroturfing here of all places). Andy Weir has written some books that are incredibly successful in the tech industry circles with Hail Mary being the current most popular if not slightly under The Martian, chances are there's just going to be a lot of talk about it. But even if there is astroturfing, telling people to not watch the movie in a thread where someone is showing off their space photography is inappropriate and misplaced.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by throw0101d »

inaros wrote: post #19
ceejayoz wrote: post #8

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I enjoyed the hell out of it. Consider the possibility that your opinions are not universal.

I heard children loved the rock... Now go to IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/reviews/?rating=1&ref_... sort by worst review and you will see the comments and reviews make a lot of sense...If you believe like some of commentators this is a 10/10 movie, you also probably believe these reviews are not manipulated...

> sort by worst review

Now go to IMDb again:

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_ra...

and look at the score distribution.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by vintagedave »

inaros wrote: post #2

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Deadpool's humour was violent and crude. I don't remember anything like that at all in Project Hail Mary.

It was a buddy film, and an American one, so had that culture in its humour, sure. But it was light-hearted and quite fun.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by roblh »

vintagedave wrote: post #34
DorkyPup wrote: post #28

This is incredible and wonderful news, huge congratulations! As someone who works at the intersection of design and engineering, the detail about delivering "starless versions" so the credit typography doesn't compete with the bright stars is exactly the kind of invisible technical problem-solving I love reading about on here. On a personal note, I find it very refreshing to hear that a major studio opted for real ca…

I'm curious how the starless versions are created. From the steps at the end, I couldn't see a 'this is how stars are removed' step. Maybe it's part of stacking (but most stars would remain present?) or the calibration process treating stars as noise?

I feel like the stars are probably pretty easy to mask out since they’re very bright relative to the rest of the image. Once you have the mask, each one is small enough that you could probably fill it with the values from adjacent pixels. Kinda like sensor mapping to hide dead pixels. That’s just a guess though, I’m sure there’s more to it than that.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by jebarker »

inaros wrote: post #5
kdaker wrote: post #4

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OP, who seem like an accomplished astrophotographer is sharing a proud moment involving his work. All you can say is how bad the movie is? You can share this in on a post about the movie itself. Btw beautiful photographs OP.

Its seems the post is part of a coordinated pump on the movie here by Amazon Studios. As you can see, if you look at the amount of related post coordinated with the release. And never seen for any other movie...

> Its seems the post is part of a coordinated pump on the movie here by Amazon Studios

Is there any evidence for this?

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