I don't understand this "security" preoccupation.  Virtually every museum
shop sells art postcards and many images from your collections are in
books.  Any two dimensional image can be scanned (3d scanners are also
now available).  Why all this devotion of time and resources to so called
"security"? Are they the directives of people who aren't familiar with
computer technology.  Even watermark and trademarks/logos can be removed
with image processing software.

I look forward to some insight to this problem.

C. Whittle
Program Development Specialist
SW Indian Polytechnic Institute
Albuquerque, NM 87184

On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Nickie Bouvier wrote:

> In the on-line version of the exhibition OCEAN PLANET (address:
> <HTTP://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html>), the images were
> "degraded" by placing the exhibition's logo on the image, so it was almost
> transparent (kind of like a watermark) but still clearly there.  I suppose
> you could still download and use the images, but the logo is placed
> prominently enough that any cropping or other alteration to get rid of it
> would adversely affect the integrity of the images.
>
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> Nicole M. Bouvier
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