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From: Wolfgang Wieser
Subject: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:24:44
Message: <3f20165c@news.povray.org>
I made some renderings of planet earth; color & topography. 
Medium-resolution images at: 

http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/render/img/earth/

I'll make some high-res images but first would like to get some 
comments.

Regards,
Wolfgang


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From: Tim Cook
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:32:52
Message: <3f201844$1@news.povray.org>
Wolfgang Wieser wrote:
> I'll make some high-res images but first would like to get some 
> comments.

I want the full-planet DEM data and whatever you used to make it
into the actual bumpy earth.  ^_^

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From: Wolfgang Wieser
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:36:52
Message: <3f201934@news.povray.org>
> I want the full-planet DEM data and whatever you used to make it
> into the actual bumpy earth.  ^_^
> 
"I didn't post the source because the raw DEM data alone is 1.8 Giga" :)
I hope your inbox is large enough... 

Wolfgang


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From: Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:41:23
Message: <3f201a43$1@news.povray.org>
They look very nice!

Are the heights on a real scale? I saw Africa-Europe image and it seems to
me that the elevations are exagerated, but perhaps I have a wrong intuition.

Fernando.


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:52:26
Message: <3F201CD9.2928B921@gmx.de>
Wolfgang Wieser wrote:
> 
> I made some renderings of planet earth; color & topography.
> Medium-resolution images at:
> 
> http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/render/img/earth/
> 
> I'll make some high-res images but first would like to get some
> comments.

news://news.povray.org/3E89FD53.12F835E6%40gmx.de
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/31083/220908/#220908

:-)

I'm not sure how you render the 1/60 degree topography with 1/30 degree
color with only 600Mb memory - according to my calculations this would
take more.

I'd strongly reduce the height exaggeration (with 2 km grid 5x-10x should
give quite pleasant results)

Christoph

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From: Tim Cook
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 13:54:42
Message: <3f201d62$1@news.povray.org>
Wolfgang Wieser wrote:
> "I didn't post the source because the raw DEM data alone is 1.8 Giga" :)
> I hope your inbox is large enough... 

O.o;;

Wow.  I wonder how I could get my hands on that...

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From: Roberto A 
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 14:47:13
Message: <3f2029b1$1@news.povray.org>
> I made some renderings of planet earth; color & topography.
> Medium-resolution images at:
>
> http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/render/img/earth/
>
> I'll make some high-res images but first would like to get some
> comments.

It's very nice, but elevations are exaggerated, IMHO. A small tweak, I'm
sure.

Regards,

Roberto


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From: Anonymous
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 15:25:25
Message: <3f2032a5$1@news.povray.org>
"Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto" <fgd### [at] hotmailcom> wrote

> They look very nice!
>
> Are the heights on a real scale? I saw Africa-Europe image and it seems to
> me that the elevations are exagerated, but perhaps I have a wrong
intuition.

You are right. With the correct scale, max elevation would be fraction of a
pixel at that resolution and thus rather imperceptible.


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From: Wolfgang Wieser
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 15:36:29
Message: <3f20353c@news.povray.org>
Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto wrote:

> Are the heights on a real scale? I saw Africa-Europe image and it seems to
> me that the elevations are exagerated, but perhaps I have a wrong
> intuition.
> 
As explained in the text above the images, the height (and the atmosphere) 
is scaled by a factor of 30. 

Otherwise Earth would be boringly flat ;)

Wolfgang


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From: Wolfgang Wieser
Subject: Re: Planet Earth rendered
Date: 24 Jul 2003 15:42:42
Message: <3f2036b1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> news://news.povray.org/3E89FD53.12F835E6%40gmx.de
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/31083/220908/#220908
> 
> :-)
> 
I know you did some similar things although I did not have the image 
in memory very well. Gonna look at them again... 

> I'm not sure how you render the 1/60 degree topography with 1/30 degree
> color with only 600Mb memory - according to my calculations this would
> take more.
> 
Let's see: 
Topo is 1/60 degree, hence 21600 x 10800 pixels, i.e. 222 mega-pixels. 
Thus, I need 444 Mb of height data (it's 2 byte). 
Adding 1/30 degree RGB color, 10800 x 5400 x 3 = 167 Mb
Together, that's 611 Mb. 
POVRay actually uses 620 Mb VM (according to the kernel). 

I wonder where I could habe failed to calculate that correctly ;)

> I'd strongly reduce the height exaggeration (with 2 km grid 5x-10x should
> give quite pleasant results)
> 
Hmm... Maybe I'll give it a try. 
My Mars images use height exaggeration of 10. But Mars has more 
extreme topography. 

http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/render/img/mars/
(Take the 2048x1536 JPEG to see the craters.)

Wolfgang


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