ESA Cydonia, Mars Image

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Walt</i>
<br />Behind The Jesters Mask A Pair Of Jokers Wild<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Please read our editorial about mirrored images. They are never valid in this kind of context. -|Tom|-

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by tvanflandern</i>
<br />Please read our editorial about mirrored images. They are never valid in this kind of context. -|Tom|-<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Here's some added insight to this, from the definition of "kaleidoscope" from Wikipedia. {emphasis added}

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The kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose coloured beads or pebbles, or other small coloured objects. The viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, reflecting off the mirrors. Typically there are two rectangular lengthways mirrors. Setting of the mirrors at 45 creates eight duplicate images of the objects, six at 60, and four at 90. As the tube is rotated, the tumbling of the coloured objects presents the viewer with varying colours and patterns. <b><i>Any arbitrary pattern of objects shows up as a beautiful symmetric pattern because of the reflections in the mirrors.</i></b> A two-mirror model yields a pattern or patterns isolated against a solid black background, while a three-mirror (closed triangle) model yields a pattern that fills the entire field.
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One thing I would add is that it's no coincidence that the kaleidoscope has basically become little more than a child's toy.



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Walt,
I have broken this image link ( by deleting the first square bracket) because the image is too wide for our processing systems and causes some problems.

Please try to find another image that is not as wide (width is the problem.)
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Not that it really needs enhancing, but for anyone who doesn't already see it, here is an enhanced version of Zipmonster's lion of cydonia:

(The D&M pyramid forms the lion's nose).



And this is my guess at a part of what Walt is trying to show (apologies if I am wrong):