POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Back to the future : Re: Back to the future [~200KBbu] Server Time
11 Oct 2024 01:21:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back to the future [~200KBbu]  
From: Phil Cook
Date: 30 Jul 2008 09:16:25
Message: <op.ue3we3v8c3xi7v@news.povray.org>
And lo on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:45:13 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:10:38 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>>>> If the grains in the film reacted to colour in some currently
>>>> unreadable fashion and/or those alterations were transferred to the
>>>> photo itself then you could, in theory, recover colour from a B&W
>>>> photo or film by reading those imperfections.
>>>
>>> That's kinda what I'm thinking.
>>
>> ...so in other words, hypothetically the information might not be
>> "gone". If that were indeed the case, it is at least plausible that
>> somebody could possibly get it back, yes.
>
> Oh, the information could well be gone, but it could be reconstructed
> from the available data.

In that case the information hasn't really gone merely converted into  
another pattern?

For an example of destroyed information tell me the equation I used to  
derive the answer of 9.

-- 
Phil Cook

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