Most types of digital images have a limited resolution.  One can’t get as much information one likes out of them.  Many over-interpretations of such are based on attempts to get information out which were not there in the first place.  Those individuals don’t know the limitations exist.  When they believe themselves to have found something hidden it is the by-effect of image processing.  Such ones they are unaware of.

Take for example this map showing somewhat simplified vegetation zones:

 

 

If we make a crop out of Europe it looks like this in maximum resolution:

 

 

Making the image 4 times as big gives this result:

 

 

The coloured fields’ square or rectangular shaped edges are results of how this image was made.  The smallest details shown in this version are called pixels.  Smaller details than that are not included in the original image.  Then I have still used lossless compression.

A less clear example is the photo I have on my main page.  I have taken it myself in one of Stockholm’s green wedges:

 

 

We can make a small crop out to see what the spot in the sky is:

 

 

Making the image 4 times as big result in this:

 

 

More information than this can’t be gotten out of the image.  There simply were no more in the photo I took from start.  Some don’t understand this limitation or refuses to accept it.  The information they then get out does not match any object in physical reality.  But they believe it to do which is what I call over-interpretation.

 

Uploaded on the 7th of Mars 2024.