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I'd like people to take a look at this one and give me some feed back. It's my attempt at making a "terraformed Mars" as realistic as possible. It's really huge (almost 7mb) so it may take awhile to load. For those who have less bandwidth or are just impatient there are two scaled down images too.
100% (6.9mb): TerraformedMarsGlobeRealistic.jpg
50% (2.1mb): TerraformedMarsGlobeRealisticMD.jpg
25% (620kb): TerraformedMarsGlobeRealisticSM.jpg
[img]http://daein.blogsplot.net/newmarssigSMALL.jpg[/img]
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Good work, this is really cool
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I chose almost realistic, because you managed to implement the 'bright spot' on the globe, something I always look for in renderings (the 'hot spot where the sun reflects on the water I mean)
it's a bit too hazy around the edges compared to an actual Earth pic. to my liking. But that's probably realistic after all since Mars' atmosphere will be higher out than Earth's due to the lower gravity?
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another point to contemplate: on Earth pics you see the cloudcovers have shadows (darker bands around their edges) so they clearly float above the surface. Not sure that's easy to implement, but paybe it's just a ne extra layer in your graphic package of choice.
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Yeah the extra haze is from the deeper atmosphere. You have to remember that Mars is 1/3rd the size of Earth and its atmosphere is three times higher. So the atmosphere looks a lot deeper.
If you look close there are shadows. Although I don't think their realism is good when it comes to which direction the shadows are cast in. If you look at this I made of the moon terraformed I used a better technique for shadows it's still not perfect.
[img]http://daein.blogsplot.net/newmarssigSMALL.jpg[/img]
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Ittiz,
It looks cool.
Since Mars would have a different light content and different atmospheric thickness, wouldn't the glow be a pinkish blue instead of an earthlike blue?
Even with a near perfect match to earths atmosphere it should look different.?
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Ittiz,
It looks cool.
Since Mars would have a different light content and different atmospheric thickness, wouldn't the glow be a pinkish blue instead of an earthlike blue?
Even with a near perfect match to earths atmosphere it should look different.?
Nah, the only thing that makes Mars' atmosphere red today is dust. The red sky was a surprise when the viking landers went to Mars. Once water settles the dust the atmosphere should be much like Earth's. Also I don't think the atmosphere is so thick that the blue light is absorbed rather than scattered.
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