The twentieth prompt for InkTober was "uncharted." This prompt made me lament that satellites have charted every square inch of this planet.
Machines are in space as we speak charting all of the planets and asteroids in the solar system. Massive satellites are discovering and charting all of the stars in the galaxy.
To find uncharted areas, we need to look to places where the satellites cannot see.
There is only one place that satellites cannot look. They cannot see beyond the event horizon of black holes.
So, I began wandering how I could draw a picture of a black hole. It turns out that in 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope took the picture of a the first black hole. I decided to draw the image of a space ship flying toward such a structure.
I thought about drawing the picture by going to town with my black pencil.
The photo would be sloppy. So, I decided to take a different tact. I decided to draw a picture of the highlights of the black hole with my PrismaColor pencils. I then imported the image into GIMP and pressed the "invert" button.
This is the picture I drew:
I turned the area of the black hole perfectly white. I then pressed the "invert" button which inverted all of the colors. It make the whites black, the blues orange and the blues yellow.
Okay, I thought the accretion disc would come out yellow when it came out orange. I got this image:
This was an interesting image but is not compelling. So I imported the image into Night Cafe which generated the image at the top of this page.
Uncharted by Night Cafe
I've been using InkTober to play a game of man v. machine. I asked Night Cafe to generate an image for the prompt. It produced sailing ships navigating a tight passage:
