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Terragen Mars: Alba Patera
Published on 30 Apr 2006 at 10:43 am.
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If I were to ask you what the largest known volcano in the solar system was, you’d probably answer Olympus Mons on Mars correct? I’ve recently discovered this is not exactly true. Although Olympus Mons is indeed tallest known volcano (at about 27 km) it is not the largest by area. Fortunately we don’t have [...]
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Terragen Mars: Planum Boreum
Published on 8 Mar 2006 at 3:08 pm.
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Welcome to Terragen Mars: Planum Boreum — the second installment of some visual explorations I’m creating using Terragen for Mac OS X.
Planum Boreum (North Plain) is the name of the area at the north pole of Mars. At about 1,200 km across, the martian polar cap is cut by canyons and troughs that dive as [...]
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Terragen Mars: Valles Marineris
Published on 1 Mar 2006 at 3:49 am.
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Welcome to Terragen Mars: Valles Marineris — the first installment of some visual explorations using Terragen for Mac OS X I hope to continue are time permits. Now on with the show!
Valles Marineris is a vast canyon system that runs along the Martian equator just east of the Tharsis region. As the largest canyon in [...]
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Terragen: Olympus Mons for real
Published on 22 Feb 2006 at 3:25 am.
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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.
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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 [...]
