POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : orrery : Re: orrery Server Time
13 Aug 2024 15:23:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: orrery  
From: Bill Hails
Date: 7 Apr 2003 04:17:11
Message: <3e913406@news.povray.org>
Tim Nikias v2.0 wrote:

> Look here for some maps which you can
> just map onto a sphere using spherical
> mapping (map_type 2):
> 
> http://www.jht.cjb.net/

That certainly is better for the moon, thanks very much.
By a strange coincidence that's the site where I got the
earth maps from, I just hadn't looked around.

> 
> That could help for the moon. For the earth,
> look here:
> 
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Wow, that's some resolution :-)

> Regards,
> Tim
> 
> --
> Tim Nikias v2.0
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
> 

-- 
I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids!


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