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Grin
Damn its not red..lol..maybe no duststorm
Im alway fascinated by Kjers Mars pics cause personally i would go there even if it was a no return mission.
(Im sure once arrived tho, I would realize it was a bad idea)
Sometimes i do some Mars pics on my own...
This is how i go about it..
First i get a DEM (Digital elevation map) from the net,(of mars obvious, NASA has deliverd quite a fiew and you get them for free)
in this case , a 256 color black and white image, where white indicates the highest point
and black the deepest.
Quite a fiew 3d progs have the option, to import those, and generate a terrain mesh.
Thats how you get "real place" geometry.
I placed the same pic as bumpmap on the mesh for surface detail.
I took one of those "Marsrover surface images" and extracted average color values for
surface and athmosphere coloring in Photoshop, the only thing "invented" ist the sunlight lol.
so there it is Valis Marinaris with olympus Mons in the back.
Original renderd in 4000+3000 px res in less than 5 minutes
I doubt tho , it would look that way , but
the approach to work, is a fine one
greets
Dj
Comments (7)
mwshipping
Very cool. I am with you on that ride even if it is one-way..... why are so many people pushing me from behind.... no wait, stop, arrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh. Great job as always!
Moebius87
I'm in the middle of reading the second book "Green Mars", in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. This could very well be the a scene from that novel. Now that I think about it... I don't remember any German characters in the book... American, Russian, French, Japanese... hmmmm... no English or Australian folks either. Still, a good read... and this image might've made a more interesting cover than the paperback edition I'm thumbing through. Well done, sir. :o)
kjer_99
Well if Robinson was writing his Mars Trilogy today, he'd probably include the Europeans more. At the time, the European Space Agency was in its early stages and not doing anything spectacular. Out of sight; out of mind. I expect when colonization of Mars begins, it will a veritable melting pot for the Solar system; not unlike America in the 1800-1900s, or Australia today. So I expect there will be lots of Germans as well as Mexicans, Brazilians, and Indians--just to mention a few. One thing is for sure, they will among the toughest, brightest, and best of humankind. As for Dajango's picture, if you are trying for absolute realism (which is always a personal choice), you need to drasticall scale the height of the terrain way down. Olympus Mons, for example sticks way above the Martian atmosphere, but its profile is really very flat--hundreds of miles in diameter, but only about 15 or 20 miles high. That means from this POV, most of your sky would be black space. Also the sun would be about half the diameter in the Martian sky that it is in Earth's sky, being approximately twice the distance from the sun than our planet, so it would look a lot smaller. Still, it is a very interesting and wonderful picture of Mars from very near space. I do like what you've done.
Django
Lol... true about the athmospher but teh geometriedata is not mine ... blame NASA
CarolSassy
Well, it looks good to me! Sounds like you had a lot of fun creating it! Excellent work! (:
RG19
Great place to visit, but I would not wanna live there :) Most effective terrain work and I like the placement of the sun, with the lens flare, super work DJ!!!
RETIRED
Terrific. Thanks for Sharing. :-) Jeremy and I both use DEMS, plus a fun program "MARS EXPLORER" that compiles DEMS to give a 3d mars topography. horizontal & from overhead. Using Vista Pro to add more DEMS. in theory it works out great. ike you I would love to make it to Mars, at least perhaps my ashes can. I do hope to see tyou post more Mars works. Dwayne