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29 Jul 2024 20:24:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Raytracing - my story  
From: Leroy Whetstone
Date: 6 Mar 2011 12:50:32
Message: <4D73C925.6070809@joplin.com>
Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Was this from the 1992 Mars Digital Terrain Model? With Mars Express
> and Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter there are now better data available, no
> global coverage though.
> 
This is from the Read me file of the zip the one of the image files I have:
    m46 - Global Mars planet imagery (c)2004
    February 05, 2004 preliminary release

    This map come from www.space-graphics.com

     Please note that this is a preliminary version a may contain
      bugs of any kind.

     Usage License
     This image is distributed as FREEWARE for Personal use only
     NO Commercial use or Commercial redistribution allowed in any form

     For more information:

     site url: http://www.space-graphics.com
     e-mail: inf### [at] space-graphicscom
I have 3 maps from there. The web site is gone or taken over.
A couple of more I don't know where they came from.

> Dang ... there went my evening ;) There are lots of strips for HRSC of
> Mars Express and a few local mosaics. Best resolution up to 50m/pixel.
> Didn't yet find any dtm level data products for MRO. I spent most of
> the time converting a vicar file to png - ImageMagick can do it but
> returned an 8 bit png with alternating Hi/Lo bytes. It also interlaced
> the left and right half of the image in odd/even lines.

Think I used I veiw32 to flip some of the maps so they would render on 
POV correctly.


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