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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 1995 19:04:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        phk@ref.tfs.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Another small nitpick [was Re: Revised version of "Giant Step" GIF]
Message-ID:  <199503091904.TAA04084@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <m0rmSSm-0003xhC@TFS.COM> from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 8, 95 12:36:08 pm

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In reply to Julian Elischer who said
> of course..
> study the original moon shot....
> it has the following points..
> 
> ladder not as visible, a big part of the shot is the 'pad' of the
> lander..
> there is only one footprint.. the rest are out of shot.. remember, 
> you take LONG steps on the moon.
> the angle of the shot is from about 60 degrees from the horizontal
> (30 from vertical), so the footprint needs to be somehow changed to
> reflect this perspective..

I know this is based on a real photo but lets not get too pedantic, lets
just get something that looks good to us?

I'm still in favour of flipping the whole thing so it's the right way up :-)

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