POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.text.scene-files : Earth : Re: Earth Server Time
28 Jun 2024 23:04:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Earth  
From: Erhard Ducke
Date: 26 Nov 2003 04:07:33
Message: <16r8sv485va6fuu7i1visoc48m134rsv69@4ax.com>
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:50:42 EST, "Scott Gammans"
<deepgloathatesspamaatyahoodotcom> wrote:

>I did *not* get the landmask file from NASA's Visible Earth website; I don't
>remember where I got it but it wasn't at NASA. You can do what I did and
>Google for "earth landmask high resolution" (I think that's how I found it)
>or better yet, you can create your own landmask file with any decent photo
>editing program and the truecolor TIFF file from NASA's website. How to do
>this is left as an exercise for the reader, 

The (8192w x 4096h), 31.81 MB TIFF file you find at

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11612

contains a landmask as a separate channel...
-- 
Erhard Ducke


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