=?windows-1252?Q?=22J=F6rg_=5C=22Yadgar=5C=22_Bleimann=22?= <yaz### [at] gmxde>
wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> Am 22.12.2014 um 02:35 schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> > A little bit closer to home than galaxies, and a transparent
> > excuse for playing with six recently released moon maps :)
> >
> > See http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4403
>
> They are much better now... but the saturation is somewhat enhanced, or,
> to be more precise, also non-visible light intensities have been taken
> into account for calculation.
>
> Inspired by these new maps, I started to re-activate my POVSolar project
> (as some of you might remember, back in 2009 I worked my way from the
> Sun and the inner planets halfway into the Saturn system) and thus now
> continued with Mimas, the smallest spherical moon of Saturn.
>
> To get a more realistic view, I reduced the overall saturation (-50 in
> GIMP) and upped brightness (+80 in GIMP) and contrast (+25 in GIMP) to
> match Mimas' high albedo, which is about 0.93.
>
> I also did a fly-around animation of Mimas, showing Saturn and its ring
> system in the background - soon to be published on YouTube.
>
> There also now detailed shape models (ASCII tables) of the six
> medium-sized icy moons of Saturn exist - in the futured, I want to
> replace the simple spheres with spherical mesh2s generated from them!
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
>
> Now playing: Firth Of Fifth (Genesis)

not really on-topic, but have you seen this?
http://www.ciclops.org/
the painting would make a nice povray project.

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