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Some of these images from the lunar observations gives me a weird perspective where the moon is really small and the features are like rain drops in really soft sand. Not sure if it's because my brain "knows" the size of the earth, and is seeing the moon as super close and forcing the perspective??? This one in particular: https://artemistimeline.com/#a-setting-earth

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It's partly because everything's in focus. We're not used to seeing images with such enormous distances.

Unrelated but happened today and found funny, my dad was telling me how my brother somewhere got this miniature 2 liter bottle of Coca-Cola. It was like a couple inches in size. It was sold as a joke product to put beside fish you caught to make them appear bigger in photos.

This sounds amazing so I had to look it up and found this as an example. (not associated in any way, just a link I found)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1638660676/miniature-2-liter-so...

There's also no distance haze effect; there's a single point source of light and no atmospheric scattering illuminating the shadows. Plus it's basically a single uniform gray texture with no variation other than the height.

It's like a video game with ALL the advanced techniques we use to make things look 'real' turned off, because most of those things are atmospheric effects, and this landscape lacks one.

I don't there's anything we interact with that has a texture much like the moon's surface.

That would be a cool science museum exhibit: a recreation of regolith and perhaps visitors can interact with it in a glovebox or drive an RC car.

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