SGHA Research ~ Photograph analysis ~ Big Nose Kate's Saloon Photo

A digital image can be treated as a data set to extract information. This is the information that we extracted from a digital photograph taken during a media event at Big Nose Kate's Saloon.

A digital image can be treated as a data set to extract information. Each pixel's intensity value is a measure of how much energy was used to generate it within the band of spectrum used to produce the image. The sum of the pixel intensities is a measure of the total energy used to create the whole image.

A spectral analysis of the photograph shows that the object is composed a different kind of light than the ambient room lighting. There also appears to be a particulate mass in the center of the object with a separate frequency of light surrounding it.

Additional band pass filters applied to isolate the different light frequencies.

Control Photos

(Photos taken before and after the one of interest)