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From: SharkD
Subject: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 04:00:01
Message: <web.4875c0ffc970e629b319b3150@news.povray.org>
I was working on this several months ago and had to put the project on hold.
Today I did a bit of cleanup and am re-familiarizing myself with the code. I
hope to iron out some problems (gradients can't go past one!) and make
improvements.

Basically, what I'm doing is combining the other textures into texture #1.

-Mike


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 04:10:00
Message: <web.4875c35533ed6cd5b319b3150@news.povray.org>
I aim to incorporate this into my Solar System include. The idea is that the
amount of snowfall and sea level is changes with the planet's incidence with
respect to the system sun. I trawled the web for some solar functions and was
having difficulty implementing them when I last was working on the project.

Also, none of the textures take rainfall into account when determining how
"green" a pigment is. Only altitude is taken into account. This also goes for
rivers (which are only at sea level where they come into contact with the sea).
I'm not sure how to go about doing this. My guess is that I would need to create
a pattern function that takes another pattern as input and measures somehow the
distance from the sea.

-Mike


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 15:31:59
Message: <487663af@news.povray.org>
That looks amazing, much more earth-like than anything I've managed to 
create. How detailed is it?

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.4875c0ffc970e629b319b3150@news.povray.org...
>I was working on this several months ago and had to put the project on 
>hold.
> Today I did a bit of cleanup and am re-familiarizing myself with the code. 
> I
> hope to iron out some problems (gradients can't go past one!) and make
> improvements.
>
> Basically, what I'm doing is combining the other textures into texture #1.
>
> -Mike
>


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 15:40:00
Message: <web.4876650533ed6cd5e116e5c40@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
> That looks amazing, much more earth-like than anything I've managed to
> create. How detailed is it?
>
> --
> Tek
> http://evilsuperbrain.com

I'm not sure what you mean by "detailed". The pigment scales to the size of the
image plane, so there's a potential for infinite detail.

-Mike


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 16:04:39
Message: <48766b57@news.povray.org>
Yeah but if you zoom in on it you won't see people walking around!
What I mean is, can you render a higher res version with anti-aliasing 
please? :)

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
>> That looks amazing, much more earth-like than anything I've managed to
>> create. How detailed is it?
>>
>> --
>> Tek
>> http://evilsuperbrain.com
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "detailed". The pigment scales to the size 
> of the
> image plane, so there's a potential for infinite detail.
>
> -Mike
>


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 17:15:01
Message: <web.48767ae933ed6cd5e116e5c40@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
> Yeah but if you zoom in on it you won't see people walking around!
> What I mean is, can you render a higher res version with anti-aliasing
> please? :)
>
> --
> Tek
> http://evilsuperbrain.com

Here's a higher resolution render.

-Mike


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 10 Jul 2008 17:50:00
Message: <web.4876834a33ed6cd5e116e5c40@news.povray.org>
Originally, I had intended to use isosurfaces. However, I ran into problems,
described here:

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.47acd95f26eb41a7ce83de880@news.povray.org%3E/

-Mike


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 11 Jul 2008 01:15:01
Message: <web.4876ebc733ed6cd5e4c3f1e10@news.povray.org>
Here's another render after some settings were tweaked. It looks a bit better
upon close inspection (fewer tiny "swirls"), but somehow doesn't look as good
from afar.

-Mike


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From: SharkD
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 11 Jul 2008 03:55:00
Message: <web.4877113b33ed6cd59e76339c0@news.povray.org>
Here's my latest. I'm pretty happy with this one.

-Mike


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Earth-like planet texture
Date: 11 Jul 2008 07:51:03
Message: <48774927$1@news.povray.org>
"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.4875c35533ed6cd5b319b3150@news.povray.org...
>I aim to incorporate this into my Solar System include. The idea is that 
>the
> amount of snowfall and sea level is changes with the planet's incidence 
> with
> respect to the system sun. I trawled the web for some solar functions and 
> was
> having difficulty implementing them when I last was working on the 
> project.

It looks very promising indeed. Note that sea-level is not influenced by the 
planet's incidence, except maybe with planets having seas the size of ponds 
:-)
But vegetation most certainly is of course.

Thomas


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