Hello everyone! Welcome to the first Put the Sci in your Fi post of 2019! This is a particularly special entry because it’s the first guest article for this blog topic! So, without further ado, I’m super stoked to introduce illustrator and graphic designer Alex Ferri Land (check out her website for some adorable art). With a decade of experience in the gaming industry, her post will highlight common misconceptions about image analysis as well as discuss the limitations of technology and what alternative options exist.

Enhance your Image Enhancement

The usual offense:

Our Detective / Cop / Space Captain has their game changing surveillance footage / photo / screen Display up. Somewhere in that image is some crucial bit of information. But it’s so small! If only they could see that tiny piece of the picture more clearly…

They zoom into the spot and see a blurry close-up of…