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THIS IS NOT AN INVESTIGATION; AND EVEN IF YOU WANT TO CONSIDER IT AS SO,
REMEMBER THAT I’M ONLY DISPLAYING PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION, AND USING
NORMAL SURFACE WEB (I don’t even know how to surface or browse the other web
lol).
This is a famous monthly French science communication magazine called "Science & Vie" (Science & Life) from March 1981, Issue n° 762*.
It was mentioned in it how Los Alamos's M5 laboratory had really good computer tools & techniques to restore/render unclear pictures in HighDef.
The example pictures in the magazine are speaking for themselves, and still hold to this day.
Just see how they got that fleeing car's license plate number from a random foggy wedding picture in classic Hollywood style, but can't in the present figure out the license number plate in the car fleeing the scene of Georgia's Guidestones explosive destruction????
It actually sort of reminds me of how I was able 10+ years ago to find in - the non algorithmic old- Google search engine HD pictures taken by InfraRed satellites of buildings & people inside them; but now you can't find anything like that..
This makes me think that this HighTech is no ordinary or mundane technology that could have been trickled down to the public domain. But also since it was developed half a century ago and would probably have now better things that are TopSecret**.
I’m wondering if the populace can get access to it, even if it means getting it through unconventional means.. uh like an assholey subscription fee or something (?).
Perhaps Archiving, Restoration, and Preservation communities should try emailing them about it***: I can't tell you how many times such thing pinned out for me in my personal endeavors, and I'm not even an American citizen or resident to begin with lol.
If that emailing solution doesn't work, then maybe we can move to a petition: enough signatures will drool some of that capitalist saliva to profit off this.
Obviously me writing about a 42 y.o worn magazine means I couldn't find that much about this technology on the web. The only thing I could really find about film restoration and a Los Alamos laboratory are 3 links:
• A second link to this PDF document in U.S. DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information about the Publications of LASL (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) Research from 1977 that mentions "image restoration" 3 times in 3 separate research titles (consecutively in page 71, 72, and 75). Original directory here .
Image restoration p. 71
Image restoration p. 72
Image restoration p. 75
• And finally one single 3rd link of a website .. but that happens to be the most important piece of information source !!
It's basically a personal effort by two gentlemen who decided to catalogue & publish (on the OPEN FREE WORLD WIDE WEB) every technical report -& research paper- from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) they could get hold of after what the website alleges to be LANL's blocking of online access to these documents!!!
The serendipitous thing here isn't just that the 3 "image restoration" mentions in the 2nd link are also present in the 3rd link! But also that 2 out the 3 studies are downloadable shows up and are downloadable!!!!!!!
EDIT: I just realized that LANL has an online library that still can give you literature results about image restoration -& reconstruction- if you lookup in the searchbar something like "image restoration".
That has been said, if we compare the current LANL's official governmental website to that old web1.0 interface library website made by normal people, I would say the amateur one is waaaay easy & user-friendly than LANL's.
The latter seems to have so many walls & buttons to go through to access those results. And that is if we could access them to begin with, because I actually couldn't. Maybe I'm too dumb to use it, but I'm sure an average dude would also have hard time using it.
This makes me think that they probably are putting these digital hurdles in front of the user to push them away from going down a rabbit hole in this field, while also keeping their legal duty of sharing the research with the tax-paying citizens.
At least we have literature's references; we could do our own research, right (:-| )?
Or perhaps even have some FOIAs requests filed in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
But I really don't know, I hope this something that'll benefit humans, and as always USA is doing& its army and intel agencies are doing a great job with their R&D programs.
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(*): If I have time, and there is enough interest, I'll translate this fascinating article to English word by word; you just let me know.
(**): At least we have papers referenced in this magazine to use for future underground reinvention/resurrection of this tech (>o<) (T0T)
(***): A few emails at once from certain community "representatives or big names/shots" may stack the odds for us, because it’ll show there is interest from people with the same passion as that of the old M5 group.
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