Let's Enhance
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a joke or critique whenever someone expects impossible image upscaling or recovery of detail.
What it is
A two-minute compilation of TV and film scenes where investigators say 'enhance' and a blurry image becomes sharp. It mocks the trope.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2010 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Critical btilly · 2010-04 · on “CSI Effect: How Forensic Science on TV Impacts Our Real Justice System”
Thanks to CSI and relatives, here is what the public thinks image manipulation can do: [this video] The ridiculousness may be lost on you if you need an explanation why a digital image of a crappy security camera can't be used to zoom in on a reflection of an eyeball. Or of why a 2-dimensional image can't be used to construct a 3-dimensional image of the scene, that you can rotate to see objects out of the line of view of the camera.
Critical jere · 2012-10 · on “Restoration of defocused and blurred images”
The whole "Enhance" trope is still completely stupid. [this video] [LINK] >But the Enhance Button simply ignores the fact that the big blocky pixels you get when you zoom in too close on a picture are the only information that the picture actually contains, and attempting to extract more detail than this is fundamentally impossible. No matter what you do or how you do it, you're merely guessing, if not making stuff up outright.