Software for producing trichromatic images in astronomy

DASTWAR: a tool for completeness estimation in magnitude-size plane

Today, great observatories around the world, devote a substantial amount of observing time to sky surveys. The resulted images are inputs of source finder modules. These modules search for the target objects and provide us with source catalogues. We sought to quantify the ability of detection tools in recovering faint galaxies regularly encountered in deep surveys. Our approach was based on com...

Experimental evidence that primate trichromacy is well suited for detecting primate social colour signals

Primate trichromatic colour vision has been hypothesized to be well tuned for detecting variation in facial coloration, which could be due to selection on either signal wavelengths or the sensitivities of the photoreceptors themselves. We provide one of the first empirical tests of this idea by asking whether, when compared with other visual systems, the information obtained through primate tri...

Visualizing Astronomical Data with Blender

Astronomical data take on a multitude of forms – catalogs, data cubes, images, and simulations. The availability of software for rendering high-quality three-dimensional graphics lends itself to the paradigm of exploring the incredible parameter space afforded by the astronomical sciences. The software program Blender gives astronomers a useful tool for displaying data in a manner used by three...

Segmentation of Photospheric Solar Images by Using c-Means,k-Means, and FCM Algorithms

Spectral Estimation Using Trichromatic Digital Cameras

In this paper we present an alternative way to capture multi-spectral images using a conventional trichromatic digital camera combined with either absorption filters or multi-illumination. The goal in this research has focused on reducing the cost and complexity of the image acquisition system while preserving its colorimetric and spectral accuracy. This paper describes this new paradigm and su...