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I have started a new project as part of the 'Views of the Earth' site
rendering a large view (96000x54000 pixel) to demonstrate the
possibilities of creating very detailed renderings with the used system.
The details can be found on:
http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/
Something else that might be interesting for those doing earth
renderings: Since several people asked for it I added a commented
demonstration scene for my earth rendering techniques:
http://www.imagico.de/pov/earth_scene.html
Christoph
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POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 01 Jun. 2006)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/
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Awesome!!
Another way to view the earth is earth.google.com too. It's a 3D sphere with
raised terrain that you can fly around. The images are not as nice, however!
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But in opposition to an image, this can be moved around, and zoomed. But you
are right - POV-Ray images are much better..!
Sven
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Christian,
that sounds very promising! I mean the image size. And I would like to thank
you for even publishing the scene code - you are helping many others with
it.
I am visiting now your website and will check it out. By the way, which kind
of computer do you use (specs)?
Best greetings,
Sven
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Dan P wrote:
> Awesome!!
>
> Another way to view the earth is earth.google.com too. It's a 3D sphere with
> raised terrain that you can fly around.
Note in many ways the images you can generate with Google Earth are not
comparable to mine. I don't know its size limits for geometry and
output image but for sure they are not sufficient to generate detailed
views much larger than screen size. All Google Earth images i saw until
now suffer from the following further problems:
- the geometry is cut off in the background so there is no realistic
horizon.
- the surface coloring is often quite wrong and inconsistent where two
different image sources meet.
- extremely crude shading and lighting (1990s computer games quality, no
shadows).
The main purpose of Google Earth is to impress computer graphics
newbies, being an 'informative computer game'. The Views of the Earth
are meant to generate detailed and realistic images.
Christoph
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POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 01 Jun. 2006)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/
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Sven Littkowski wrote:
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> I am visiting now your website and will check it out. By the way, which kind
> of computer do you use (specs)?
That's covered in the FAQ:
http://earth.imagico.de/faq.html
Christoph
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http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 01 Jun. 2006)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/
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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> I have started a new project as part of the 'Views of the Earth' site
> rendering a large view (96000x54000 pixel) to demonstrate the
> possibilities of creating very detailed renderings with the used
> system. The details can be found on:
>
> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/
Very impressive project. It looks very impressive too, at least in Firefox.
In Internet Explorer it just looks sad, which is what most people will see.
Rune
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Rune wrote:
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> Very impressive project. It looks very impressive too, at least in Firefox.
> In Internet Explorer it just looks sad, which is what most people will see.
Should be better now. The tile view page contained indeed an error but
most troubles are due to IE bugs. And you are wrong about 'most people'
- the majority of visitors don't use IE. ;-)
Christoph
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POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 01 Jun. 2006)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/
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Christoph Hormann spake:
> Rune wrote:
>>
>> Very impressive project. It looks very impressive too, at least in
>> Firefox. In Internet Explorer it just looks sad, which is what most
>> people will see.
>
> Should be better now. The tile view page contained indeed an error but
> most troubles are due to IE bugs. And you are wrong about 'most people'
> - the majority of visitors don't use IE. ;-)
For your imagico site? Interesting... Most of the sites we work on have
98.5% IE visits (not that busy most of them - busiest about 10 000 hits in
24 hours) - what's your number 1 browser? Firefox?
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Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions
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Stefan Viljoen <spamnot@ wrote:
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> For your imagico site?
Yes (for all subdomains together - i don't get separate stats for them).
> Interesting... Most of the sites we work on have
> 98.5% IE visits (not that busy most of them - busiest about 10 000 hits in
> 24 hours) - what's your number 1 browser? Firefox?
The most common single Browser is either IE6 of Firefox (varies) but
still all IE versions together mostly stay below 50%. This is based on
hit counts so visitors viewing a lot of pages count more.
As a side note IE percentage has raised significantly since i started
Views of the Earth (probably since it attracts more non-technical visitors).
But my site is surely not representative and all numbers are subject to
errors due to faked browser identities (which at least Opera and
Konqueror can do).
Christoph
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POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 01 Jun. 2006)
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