The Martian Grail by MichaelEaton
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You will note that this rendering is nearly identical with "Oceanic Mars". The principal differences are the polar cap, the little moon, fewer clouds, and the addition of a specular map for the ocean. I might note that all the texture maps are 9000X4500, including the cloud deck. The haze layer again is a very time-intensive volumetric globe just marginally larger than the planet. Now the moon -- a rather rough approximation of Phobos -- was NOT created in Bryce. Rather, I used an ancient program called Simply 3D 2, which has a little tool which -- for me at least -- makes it very easy to warp a globe any old way I like.
Comments (4)
zopeynn
Planet is great.Excellent work,bravo!
zescanner
Beautiful! Yes, this is the long-range goal for Mars. Except of course if we ever DO find any evidence for current life on Mars then the environmentalist faction will not want this to occur. Hey, is that Simply 3D 2 software still available. I could benifit from that.
MichaelEaton
Well, to tell you the truth, I would be mightily averse to any large large terrforming of Mars, especially if it included the suburbization of the planet. If there is life there, then I think it has priority over us -- even if it is bacterial-level.
dickbill
No man will ever see that, but maybe the sons of man. And don't worry about the local bacteria, they are comfy in our (new) genome now. I claimed an intellectual patent about that earlyer. Well done Michael. More specular in the water maybe, it's too blue IMO.