Archives for February 2006

Terragen: Olympus Mons for real

Published on 22 Feb 2006 at 3:25 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under Images, Terragen.

Ok, in our last episode I presented what will henceforth be known as my “Pitiful Rendering of a Flight Over Olympus Mons. For those of you that didn’t see it for one reason or another here is a frame of the animation depicting Olympus Mons on Mars:
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Yes it’s that lightly shaded pancake in [...]

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Terragen: Flight Over Olympus Mons

Published on 18 Feb 2006 at 5:02 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under Images, Terragen, Video.

Sounds cool eh?
I took a Digital Elevation Map (DEM) of the surface of Mars, isolated the area around Olympus Mons, and imported it into Terragen. I then created a camera script of fly over the martian volcano. Admittedly I could have done a much better job with the surface texture and the vertical scale is [...]

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Terragen QTVR

Published on 17 Feb 2006 at 10:22 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Images, Terragen.

Terragenâ„¢ includes some neat QuickTime VR tools. Here is my first render of a QTVR scene with Terragen. It’s just a “quick and dirty” scene I whipped up to test. Hold down the left mouse button and drag around the scene to navigate.
click the image to open the QTVR scene in a new window

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Terragen

Published on 16 Feb 2006 at 2:25 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under Images, Terragen.

I’d like to thank davep’s astronomy blog for pointing me to Terragenâ„¢. It’s a program to generate photo-realistic landscapes for Windows and Mac!. I used to muck around with VistaPro in Virtual PC for Mac as it is Windows only (and has an ugly DOS-esque interface). The feature set is very similar but I’m stoked [...]

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Finally LPI!

Published on 15 Feb 2006 at 3:03 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Images, Observation Log.

I think I’m finally getting the Meade Lunar Planetary Imager (LPI) down. This morning the temperature was in the mid 40s F. I got the scope outside about midnight and let it equalize for about an hour. I also uncapped the LPI and put it out there as well… hey the cooler the better with [...]

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