Blade Runner Enhance Scene
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as the canonical reference for the 'enhance' trope whenever image upscaling or recognition comes up.
What it is
The Blade Runner scene in which Deckard uses a voice-controlled machine to enhance a photograph, zooming into hidden details.
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What Hacker News said
Cites anigbrowl · 2013-04 · on “Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing”
"zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows Actually, those jokes refer to a scene in Blade Runner : [this video]
Cites dmix · 2015-01 · on “Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)”
Yes in the 3 minute scene there were multiple indications from the picture to indicate: Chinatown (food/texts), the girls outfit (being a dancer), and an identifying tattoo. Which would point to only a few dance clubs in the city. It was also a connection to the artificial snake scale being found in the bath tub that happened to be rare and only created by a few possible engineers. Engineers who work on robotics. One Chinatown engineer happened to be employed by the people he was looking for, who were robots in need of an engineer... Not a far fetched connection by Hollywood's standards. [this video]