TSA Art

14 responses to “TSA Art”

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   jurvetson

   Mar 16, 2013 at 5:24 am

   For these scans, I was slouching in a business suit and was not bald; it sees through clothes and hair, as if you were freshly shaven:

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   In the reconstructed image on the left, I had ceramic knives tucked in my sock and belt and some other weapon in my right pocket as part of the test. I originally posted the single-channel sensor feed on the right as a flickr puzzle. The resolution has improved since then…

   You can even see if a chap’s boxers are pinching a bit tight by the skin indentations, among other unpleasantries.

   The technology was developed at the PNNL gov’t labs for that “x-ray vision” capability (so snipers could see through walls).

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   scleroplex

   Mar 16, 2013 at 6:21 pm

   am glad you took that photo 🙂

   essentially these machines only attest to the complete failure of the intelligence sector.
   all that money so totally wasted as the christmas bomber undeniably proved
   even though the Obama Administration claimed "The system has worked very very smoothly!!" :-))

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvGf5mi8cZ0

   we tell the father of the bomber who comes in beforehand, no no sir, we don’t believe in intelligence, we believe in random screenings and expensive high tech machines!

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   scleroplex

   Mar 16, 2013 at 6:38 pm

   :-))
   Da Vinci! eat your heart out!

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   jgury

   Mar 16, 2013 at 6:53 pm

   They really did get the Lee Harvey Oswald look right here. Impressive.
   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgury/8562021641/]

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   jurvetson

   Mar 16, 2013 at 10:56 pm

   now that’s art imitating imitation life

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   gsikich1

   Mar 16, 2013 at 11:39 pm

   Michelangleo was here…. or maybe that was the last person to question TSA authority?

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   Kevin Baird

   Mar 17, 2013 at 12:44 am

   I was thinking that too. Or it’s the site of a Terminator time travel mishap.

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   Tom Raftery

   Mar 17, 2013 at 12:52 am

   How bizarre!

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   hallowed bicycle

   Mar 17, 2013 at 5:44 am

   Painted windows, white noise generators, man oh man–I do not miss any of that.

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    jgury

    Mar 17, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    A nice example of image processing tech with how dramatic a halftone / dither can be over just about any other adjustments. Higher end packages you can hit the halftone dots with full kernel distributions rather than just a solid dot which is a uniform case-but still plenty effective. You make the kernel distribution parameters, like the standard dev, dependent on some aspects of the image data. That works with pure datasets too when you are trying to visualize trends, structure or doing things like super smoothers. So rather than solid little dots you spray it with little normal distribution dots in the basic gaussian case. Now I’m really curious about is how they etched(?) the scanner image into the tiles, like they used acid man, or a laser headstone image engraving machine. However they did it, global iconic TSA doormat threat scanner man sure winds up looking like you know who here
    

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    PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

    Mar 18, 2013 at 2:26 am

    Goldensweet ! Photoneting with similar ARTScanning creations, in Paris a few years ago… with a frenchysexy touch

    

    "Inspired by some of the most advance technology, in medical imagery. Holographic photographies and 3-D videos, from Rodolphe von Gombergh, reveal the inside of the human body, and its multiple hidden dimensions."

    ps: just got confused and realised… decentralizcentristed data sharing from Flickr to Facebook got me confused about where to share visual curiosities between both artificial visual fields… hope that’ s ok =)

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    jgury

    Mar 19, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgury/8572765312/]

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    jurvetson

    Nov 23, 2014 at 4:58 am

    P.S. The Wall Street Journal picked up on my plan to disband the TSA

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    scleroplex

    Nov 23, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    excellent! hope the business sector makes it happen.

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