Thanks Booze...You have made me sift through the articles....
"What do whale sharks and the night sky have in common? An awful lot, it turns out. They are both on the large side. Both are attractive, if a bit daunting. And they have the same complexion: a sprinkling of white spots against a dark background. It is this last characteristic that grabbed the attention of Ecocean, an Australian marine conservation agency. Using a star-recognition algorithm developed by NASA, volunteers Jason Holmberg and Zaven Arzoumanian, and marine biologist Brad Norman from Murdoch University in Australia, have developed software that can assign a whale shark a "digital fingerprint" based on a photograph of the pattern of spots on its back."
http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-06/rd/whaleshark/
Cheers!
"What do whale sharks and the night sky have in common? An awful lot, it turns out. They are both on the large side. Both are attractive, if a bit daunting. And they have the same complexion: a sprinkling of white spots against a dark background. It is this last characteristic that grabbed the attention of Ecocean, an Australian marine conservation agency. Using a star-recognition algorithm developed by NASA, volunteers Jason Holmberg and Zaven Arzoumanian, and marine biologist Brad Norman from Murdoch University in Australia, have developed software that can assign a whale shark a "digital fingerprint" based on a photograph of the pattern of spots on its back."
http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-06/rd/whaleshark/
Cheers!
