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by sgt 1480 days ago
Would it be possible to extrapolate frames in between to give one smooth flyover?
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Nitpick: you interpolate data between two known points (frames), and extrapolate beyond the first or last known datapoint.
You just blew my mind. Thanks for pointing this out, what seems obvious in hindsight :)
Thanks for the correction
I guess extrapolation is quite simple: just pitch black
Here's an attempt: https://youtu.be/RgvxLEYeb3g
Really cool - if you could also change the shape of the planet it would look even better.
And are there additional images in the probe's storage that will be transferred over the coming... years?
Yes but it will look like there's extrapolated frames. I'm sure you'll see something like that in a YouTube video or something on the Discovery channel but I don't see the point of NASA doing that.