14      The Production Environment: Colorization and Other Technology Issues

We have explored production technologies that have influenced industry, and through a rippling effect, society. This chapter examines representative examples of such technologies as well as important applications and implications.

COLORIZATION

Colorization is the process in which a black-and-white movie is manipulated by computer to produce a colorized version of the original film. Black-and-white television programs have also been affected.

In brief, when NASA started the exploration of the Solar System, thousands of photographs of other worlds were transmitted to Earth. They were fed to computers and subsequently underwent image processing. This operation had two primary ...

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