"Wolfgang Wieser" <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> I'm currently experimenting a little to put some water on
> Mars. I'm not sure if it looks realistic, so ideas are welcome.
>
> The water has an interior with exponential fading.
>
> The (nearly) same image without water can be found at
>
http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/render/img/mars/index.html#3craters

I like. I'll get my swimsuit.

Looks pretty good, as is, actually. Something which could help it would be
flows from higher to lower elevations, but probably very difficult to do, if
not impossible. And would be a good idea to try and limit parts from getting
water too.

Of course, one thing a planet with water needs is plantlife in at least some
parts. Granted, there could still be somewhat lifeless regions caused by
salty bodies of water and such, but not always (well, lots of unknowns). So
maybe you could add a slope pigment to get regions looking like a kind of
foliage is covering parts of the ground or along the embankments.

BTW, I didn't get back to one of your previous messages where you told of
using a custom-made convertor of the MOLA img files. So thanks for telling
about that. I was still looking all over for more info about the resolutions
of the elevation data and I didn't get anywhere with that so I gave up
trying.

Any chance you'll be making your conversion tool available? If so I, for
one, have my hand out to await it. I'll try not to be pushy though.  ;-)

Bob

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