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From: Tek
Subject: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 03:52:06
Message: <4a8e5226@news.povray.org>
Everything in this image is based on the rainfall & temperature maps I 
posted a while ago.

The stratus cloud is a little too thick, causing a white out in the bottom 
right areas, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it.

There's still a few things I want to do with it, but this is only 1 part of 
the IRTC image I'm working on and the competition deadline is fast 
approaching, so I'm probably going to focus on the other elements.

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 11:41:13
Message: <4a8ec019$1@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:
> The stratus cloud is a little too thick, causing a white out in the bottom 
> right areas, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it.

Very cool. Much better than purely random fractals.

I'm curious what the white line around the continents is. If that's supposed 
to be surf, I think you're far too far away to see surf.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 13:14:00
Message: <4a8ed5d8$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:

> I'm curious what the white line around the continents is. If that's 
> supposed to be surf, I think you're far too far away to see surf.

I don't speak for Tek, but my guess is sandy beaches ...


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~Mike


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 14:59:29
Message: <4a8eee91@news.povray.org>
High!

Tek wrote:
> Everything in this image is based on the rainfall & temperature maps I 
> posted a while ago.
> 
> The stratus cloud is a little too thick, causing a white out in the bottom 
> right areas, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it.
> 
> There's still a few things I want to do with it, but this is only 1 part of 
> the IRTC image I'm working on and the competition deadline is fast 
> approaching, so I'm probably going to focus on the other elements.

AWESOME!

Believable continent shapes, (almost) realistic cloud swirls... much 
better than anything I could achieve during the last 14 years using POV-Ray!

Do you already use real relief or is it just a "flat" texture with some 
normals added? If the former, then these large inland seas seen right of 
the center should be at somewhat different altitude levels...

I can't wait for a high-scale atlas, let's say 1:1,000,000...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 15:18:18
Message: <4a8ef2fa$1@news.povray.org>
"Mike Raiford" <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4a8ed5d8$1@news.povray.org...
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> I'm curious what the white line around the continents is. If that's 
>> supposed to be surf, I think you're far too far away to see surf.
>
> I don't speak for Tek, but my guess is sandy beaches ...

Yep! In fact it's from the water-colour calculation, the more shallow the 
water the closer to that light-yellow colour it gets. If I have time I'll do 
something more like my earlier versions which had more variety in beaches 
and sea-floor materials.

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 15:53:40
Message: <4a8efb44$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:51:59 +0100, Tek wrote:

> Everything in this image is based on the rainfall & temperature maps I
> posted a while ago.

Very nice work. :-)

Jim


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 21 Aug 2009 16:59:11
Message: <4a8f0a9f$1@news.povray.org>

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>
> Do you already use real relief or is it just a "flat" texture with some 
> normals added? If the former, then these large inland seas seen right of 
> the center should be at somewhat different altitude levels...

It's just a texture with normals. I might put the clouds on a concentric 
sphere a small distance above the ground so they cast a shadow, but I have 
no plans to make the surface 3D.

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 22 Aug 2009 04:33:19
Message: <4a8fad4f@news.povray.org>
Looking extremely good.

Thomas


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 22 Aug 2009 07:19:22
Message: <4a8fd43a$1@news.povray.org>

> Everything in this image is based on the rainfall & temperature maps I 
> posted a while ago.
> 
> The stratus cloud is a little too thick, causing a white out in the bottom 
> right areas, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it.
> 
> There's still a few things I want to do with it, but this is only 1 part of 
> the IRTC image I'm working on and the competition deadline is fast 
> approaching, so I'm probably going to focus on the other elements.
> 

  Amazing... there is even a peninsula that looks like Spain! :)

--
Jaime


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: Planet WIP
Date: 22 Aug 2009 14:52:44
Message: <4a903e7c@news.povray.org>
I've added ice caps, snow on mountains, and tweaked the clouds. I think it's 
done, for now!

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


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