A scale model of the solar system, differing scales for the smaller and 
larger planets so they fit together into a single scene. This doesn't have 
the image maps included but maybe I could post them later, they came from 
various online sources I've forgotten. Easily replaced by ones you might 
have already and/or could download. Best to resize to small low resolution 
(I used 720X360) for speed of renders, especially during animations.

Things to do: orbits lack actual orientation with regard to stars (no star 
background either) or real time, or much else aside from their scaled sizes, 
tilts, inclines. So a version 1.1 or 2 is always possible.

This is free to use, modify as you please, without credit due.
-- 
/*bob hughes*/

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Running this scene as an animation again tonight I noticed how I neglected 
to put clock in for a quick animation, something like
 -ki0 -kf1 -kfi1 -kff100
for cmd: where I had already put a -w640 -h640 +a
For those unaware, you may right-click this line in the POV for Windows 
editor to send it to the command line.

I'm accustomed to using the resolutions drop-down list containing my own 
items with various animation parameters instead of the command line, so that 
was something I meant to say before when posting this. Just make sure you 
also put some number with clock in the Years=. Hope that helps.

Decided to put the resized image maps here in solarsystem-maps.zip. Maybe 
that's OK... if I understand the terms I found at the web site where I think 
most of these might come from, that being not to redistribute the images 
unchanged (these are all down-sized).
Look at http://planetpixelemporium.com/planets.html for full-sized planet 
image maps. I hadn't intended to zoom the view into planet surfaces but you 
might. In fact, asteroid Ceres uses a different Pluto rendition (and Pluto 
is Jupiter's moon Ganymede!).

One other thing... my choice of file name was a bad one for animations. The 
ver1 ending gets numbers added to it, making it become ver101, ver102, 
ver103... ver110 for a ten frame animation. So you should probably use 
another output name. I will be sure to change that if I ever post another 
version. Mistakes were rampant in that file as I readied it for posting 
here, it could have many things wrong still. You've been warned.
;^)

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"Bob Hughes" <omniverse charter net> wrote:
> Look at http://planetpixelemporium.com/planets.html for full-sized planet
> image maps. I hadn't intended to zoom the view into planet surfaces but you
> might. In fact, asteroid Ceres uses a different Pluto rendition (and Pluto
> is Jupiter's moon Ganymede!).

Not surprisingly, NASA has a lot of image maps as well; best thing: As a
government organization, they make them available for free to everyone and any
use.

They also provide a lot of stuff post-processed "ready for use" these days - and
they have the highest resolution you can get to date.

It may take a few googling attempts though to get to the right places - nasa.gov
is quite a big site :).

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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "Bob Hughes" <omniverse charter net> wrote:
>> Look at http://planetpixelemporium.com/planets.html for full-sized planet
>> image maps. I hadn't intended to zoom the view into planet surfaces but 
>> you
>> might. In fact, asteroid Ceres uses a different Pluto rendition (and 
>> Pluto
>> is Jupiter's moon Ganymede!).
>
> Not surprisingly, NASA has a lot of image maps as well; best thing: As a
> government organization, they make them available for free to everyone and 
> any
> use.
>
> They also provide a lot of stuff post-processed "ready for use" these 
> days - and
> they have the highest resolution you can get to date.
>
> It may take a few googling attempts though to get to the right places - 
> nasa.gov
> is quite a big site :).


Been through many a NASA web page, yep. Tried looking there just now and 
didn't have much luck finding all I would want to immediately. ;^)
Came across the web page
http://www.carinasoft.com/support/links08.html
of several places to obtain solar system image maps, one such being the 
aforementioned, and I immediately recognized the familiar names David Seal, 
Bjorn Jonsson, as well as Hastings-Trew's I had told of (simulated Sun map 
obviously from there).

Was going through my orrery file again and found numerous errors, mainly 
where the Earth atmosphere got thrown in to the mix (scales wrong, metric is 
same as Earth surface!). Obviously I couldn't keep order in the chaos while 
I made changes. ha ha!
No idea if the whole thing functions as intended, leaving that up to others 
to discover for themselves. Guess I should have added a disclaimer about it 
not being for scientific purposes.

Bob

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