Posted by
Polarik on Monday, June 30, 2008 2:03:05 PM
Many thanks to Texas Darlin and Greg Gelembiuk, but props to the GIMP development team (http://www.gimp.org/) for providing the software used to examine these images. The GIMP program was used to apply an edge detection algorithm, known as Sobel, to the various versions of the COLB image. Greg provided the settings for the Sobel detection. With it, we can examine the underlying impressions made on whatever was the basis for these images. The following question has been raised by the blogsphere:
- QUESTION: Are there seals hidden from view on the "Certificate of Live Birth" images posted to (a) the Daily Kos. (b) BarackObama.com (aka "Fight the Smears") and/or (c) the two images posted on OPENDNA's PhotoBucket account?
- ANSWER: YES to (a), but a big, fat NO to (b) and (c)
(a) The Daily Kos COLB:
(b) The "Fight the Smears" COLB:
(c-1) OpenDNA's 1st COLB:
(c-2) OpenDNA's 2nd COLB:
For comparison sake, Pat DeCosta's COLB:
For comparison sake, Jason Tomoyasu's COLB:
And, last but not least, Jeremy Smith's COLB:
So, what have we learned from all this?
There's more than meets the naked eye, for one.
You can do a lot of devious things with graphics program, for another.
Mostly, however, we STILL do not have any GENUINE certified copies of Barack Obama's birth certificate or Certificate of Live Birth.
Memo to Sen. Obama and anyone else trying to pass off images as being a copy of your birth record:
"Either show us the real deal, or don't show up at all"