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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: An4ximandros on October 22, 2012, 02:18:12 pm
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"So we made a 3d Map of the largest one in the solar system so you can be amazed while being amazed!"
http://ut-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/valles_3d_H.jpg - Preview
http://www.esa.int/images/valles_3d_H.jpg - Full (Save As only, it's 11020 x 5865)
I have no words, I need to invent new ones.
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why invent new words?
this is just awesome.
there, problem solved.
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I wish we could have it as an FSO terrain model...
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Google Earth's Jet plane mode is the closest we got right now I am afraid... :(
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I wish we could have it as an FSO terrain model...
Well if they made a 3D map of it, it probably exists somewhere as a 3D model or data that could easily be converted to one. I doubt they'd release it, but it likely exists.
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I think data like that are publicly available, or at least they should be. NASA releases a whole bunch of their raw data to the public.
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It's from the ESA, not NASA. Though I believe they do the same.
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I wish we could have it as an FSO terrain model...
NASA did release a heightmap awhile back, it would have been possible to convert that into a 3D model without huge difficulties. I suggested at the time the BP team might have need/want of it.
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That's a thing of beauty. :)
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That's a thing of beauty. :)
Seconded. That's really all that needs to be said.
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Impressive! Wish it included Noctis Labyrinthus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctis_Labyrinthus) though. :(
edit: BAM! (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMWBK73R8F_1.html)
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Impressive! Wish it included Noctis Labyrinthus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctis_Labyrinthus) though.
I always knew you were secretly a Necron.
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Do not taint this sacred thread with the vile of Warhammer "WhatTheFuggEver"
Edit, I forgot heresy is a concept in Warham, damn it.
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heresy
Cultural victory!
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Actually, I first knew about Noctis because of Descent 3. :nervous:
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Actually, I first knew about Noctis because of Descent 3. :nervous:
...well I guess that makes you still a bot. Fair enough.
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Actually, I first knew about Noctis because of Descent 3. :nervous:
Heh, that's the first thing that comes to my mind too.
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I'd be more interested in Cydonia, myself. :drevil:
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We already know the "face" was an artifact of primitive technology... Sorry, no X-Com's coming.
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The OP links are beautiful.
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We already know the "face" was an artifact of primitive technology... Sorry, no X-Com's coming.
:(
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That's X-COM propaganda. We took out a couple of the probes in the '90s with errant alien grenades, too. We apologize.
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I'm pretty sure I've flown in that canyon in X-Plane before. :D
I did ask about the MOLA data before, though I've not followed up as I should have. Using a program you can get from NASA called NASAview (fascinating name, right?), you can capture greyscale regions of very large sections of Mars, which you could use to generate heightmaps. The problem is that if you want accurate terrain, you would in fact need to write your own software to generate the 3D terrain as-is on the planet itself. Because elevations vary so much place-to-place, greyscale images as of themselves are really at a disadvantage, and terrain tends to be rather homogenous unless you can isolate the particular elevations of the specific regions you intend to model.