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Nice images, but... Yuk, horrible compression artifacts in the images. People should know how to deal with this.

I couldn't help but think the same thing. The imagery looks like it was done very well, and then made super-ugly via compression. Shoot, I think I could make GIF's of those images that looked more palatable. Kinda sad. Neat idea, tho. Thanks for linking to it!

- Brandon
Houston, Texas

It looks like they lifted the images from another source. You can see areas where they 'erased' text near the names of planets/stars. I seriously doubt rense.com created these. I'd like to know who did.

Does any one know if these perspective sizes are even close to actual?

I saw the originals a couple of years ago. The "erased text" were actually Chinese characters (or Japanese, I don't recall quite well now). And yes, they were remarkably beautiful.
I don't know for sure if they were made exactly to scale, but judging from the quality of the original pictures and the emphasis on education in the Far-Eastern countries, I am inclined to say they are true to life scale models.



HOU, TX

Horatius, could you find the original images again? I think everybody who saw these images would like to see the originals, and maybe someone could make a better translation to keep the original quality...

go here to see intermediary photos for the planets and our sun.

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm