Hi,

I've recently compiled a small program that generates a sphere made of
triangles which's surface is modified to create an earth-like texture.
This produces a triangle mesh of a planet.

So, does anyone think that this is in any way useful? Because you could
probably do the same by creating a texture on a sphere, then rendering
it with a cylindrical camera and using is as a height-field and pass it
through John Beale's orb program.

If anyone thinks it might be useful I might add craters and such.

Guy

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Can this program be use to generate other surface profiles
or were you only concerned with earths topography ?

Guy Rauscher wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently compiled a small program that generates a sphere made of
> triangles which's surface is modified to create an earth-like texture.
> This produces a triangle mesh of a planet.
>
> So, does anyone think that this is in any way useful? Because you could
> probably do the same by creating a texture on a sphere, then rendering
> it with a cylindrical camera and using is as a height-field and pass it
> through John Beale's orb program.
>
> If anyone thinks it might be useful I might add craters and such.
>
> Guy

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If I used a larger extrusion amount and added some craters and used a
solid color (instead of using blue for the sea in the lower areas) it
could easily be an asteroid. At least so I would like to believe.

Guy

K. Tyler wrote:
> 
> Can this program be use to generate other surface profiles
> or were you only concerned with earths topography ?
> 
> Guy Rauscher wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've recently compiled a small program that generates a sphere made of
> > triangles which's surface is modified to create an earth-like texture.
> > This produces a triangle mesh of a planet.
> >
> > So, does anyone think that this is in any way useful? Because you could
> > probably do the same by creating a texture on a sphere, then rendering
> > it with a cylindrical camera and using is as a height-field and pass it
> > through John Beale's orb program.
> >
> > If anyone thinks it might be useful I might add craters and such.
> >
> > Guy

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