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Simeon Schmauß has presented a 3D rendering of the Moon's surface reconstructed from images taken by NASA's Orion optical navigation camera during the Artemis I lunar flyby on November 21, 2022. You can find the original images here.
The model was created in Agisoft Metashape and retouched in Blender. The creator also shared how the mosaic was made.
"Just stitching the images like a normal panorama would result in distortion, because the spacecraft moved between images. Instead, this is a wide-angle view rendered from the 3D model. The viewpoint is from ca 570km above the lunar surface."
Schmauß said that the original images contained banding artifacts, so he applied a vertical median blur to a copy of the image, which removed the lines but also some detail. Then he replaced the affected lines with the blurred version, this removed the defect completely.
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