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From: Jon Berndt
Subject: Planetary picture
Date: 5 Mar 2002 22:50:51
Message: <3c85921b$1@news.povray.org>
At the risk of starting another spate of earth sphere renders, today's
Astronomy Picture of the Day features one I haven't seen, yet. It looks like
a whole earth picture I've seen before, but this one is a bit different and
much more appropriate for earth sphere renders:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0203/earthtruecolor_nasa_big.jpg

Jon

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From: Dave Blandston
Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 02:00:23
Message: <3c85be87@news.povray.org>
Oooh! That's a good one!

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"Jon Berndt" <jsb### [at] hal-pcorg> wrote in message
news:3c85921b$1@news.povray.org...
> At the risk of starting another spate of earth sphere renders, today's
> Astronomy Picture of the Day features one I haven't seen, yet. It looks
like
> a whole earth picture I've seen before, but this one is a bit different
and
> much more appropriate for earth sphere renders:
>
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0203/earthtruecolor_nasa_big.jpg
>
> Jon
>
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> Jon S. Berndt
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> JSBSim Project
> http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 02:55:03
Message: <3c85cb57$1@news.povray.org>
Indeed, a very nice and large map.
Thanks for posting
regards
SY


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From: Timothy R  Cook
Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 07:57:28
Message: <3C861235.FCA1D0F7@scifi-fantasy.com>
Jon Berndt wrote:
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0203/earthtruecolor_nasa_big.jpg

The version of that that I have is 4000 x 2000.

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Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 08:23:33
Message: <3c861855$1@news.povray.org>
> The version of that that I have is 4000 x 2000.

with more details or just bigger pixels? *g*
how large is it zipped? uhm.... jpg won't shrink much. or is it some other
format? non-lossy compression preferred :)

regards
SY


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From: Timothy R  Cook
Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 08:38:43
Message: <3C861BDE.ACC5D3A9@scifi-fantasy.com>

> with more details or just bigger pixels? *g*

More details.  Has ice over antarctica and the arctic, and has ocean
floor detail.

> how large is it zipped? uhm.... jpg won't shrink much. or is it some other
> format? non-lossy compression preferred :)

I made a .bmp of it for use with POV, that's 23 MB uncompressed.
9.6 MB zipped.  8.6 MB rarred.  3.4 MB jpegged.


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From: Perry Van Dongen
Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 09:24:08
Message: <3c862688$1@news.povray.org>
If anyone is looking for some bigger colour, bump and specular Earth maps
you can find them here

http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html

Perry Van Dongen


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Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 09:50:32
Message: <3c862cb8@news.povray.org>
> I made a .bmp of it for use with POV, that's 23 MB uncompressed.
> 9.6 MB zipped.  8.6 MB rarred.  3.4 MB jpegged.

what was the original format before you converted it into bmp?


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Subject: BTW: planets (NASA pic/no trace attached) [87kB b.u.]
Date: 6 Mar 2002 10:03:03
Message: <3c862fa7@news.povray.org>
Hi,

just because I see the earth map thread and Perry's link:

It popped up in my mind that I once modelled Jupiter by just using stacked
textures which can be animated easily. I adjusted the colours and textures
according to a NON-colour-enhanced picture as released by NASA (at least
they claim that it is in "natural/human" colour composition).

If interested I can post the code.
See the animation (speed over-exaggregated) in p.b.a.

I know that there are tons of models available for POV but I like
hand-modelling. (I mean: applying downloaded texture maps isn't really a
challenge, is it??)

have fun,
regards,
SY

PS: Venus by using textures only is available too, as well as a 16-bit gray
TGA heightfield of Mars' surface by using MOLA data. Saturn was never
finished due to time restrictions. Maybe I start over again and create the
1001st POV model *lol*

Attached the Jupiter pic I mentioned.


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Preview of image 'csjup001230_04.gif'
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From: Timothy R  Cook
Subject: Re: Planetary picture
Date: 6 Mar 2002 14:19:37
Message: <3C866BC9.FC68921B@scifi-fantasy.com>
Perry Van Dongen wrote:
> If anyone is looking for some bigger colour, bump and specular Earth maps
> you can find them here
> http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html

Darnit, the 10k version doesn't work :(

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