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the same pile after making a few changes

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Fig. 3. — Superposition of negative of Fig. 2 and positive of Fig. 1. The marked variations in shade indicate the changes.
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ex M. H. Stillman. “Photographic Methods of Detecting Changes in a Complicated Group of Objects.”
Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards 16 (1921) : 437-448
University of Chicago copy, digitized May 24, 2012

“When the photographs are properly made, those parts of the combination which correspond to the unchanged portion of the group of objects will appear as a field of practically uniform density, while a change in the group will be revealed by a considerable departure from this uniform density... Fig. 1 shows a pile of rocks before the change. Fig. 2 shows the same pile after making a few changes... Fig. 3 shows the appearance when the second negative is superposed upon the positive of the first.”   p 438
 

27 November 2013

tags:
change; pile of rocks
M. H. Stillman, “Photographic Methods of Detecting Changes in a Complicated Group of Objects” (1921)