Earth Shot
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Published on November 28, 2011
This thing was Featured on November 28, 2011
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Since I made a new release of Banate CAD today:
williamaadams.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/banate-cad-second-release/
I thought I'd make somethingto to go with it. Well, while I was out in space taking pictures of the moon, and space ships, I thought, hay, why not turn the camera towards earth and take a couple of snaps, and create a model while I'm at it.
This thing is a vector normal mapped (a new term I found on the internet) model of the earth.
I grabbed a couple of high quality pictures from the internet, and just threw them into Banate CAD, the same way as I created the moon shot, and there you have it!
I'm sure someone is dying to tell me the earth is an oblate spheroid, and that I can't model it strictly as a sphere, but I think at these sizes it won't really matter.
williamaadams.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/banate-cad-second-release/
I thought I'd make somethingto to go with it. Well, while I was out in space taking pictures of the moon, and space ships, I thought, hay, why not turn the camera towards earth and take a couple of snaps, and create a model while I'm at it.
This thing is a vector normal mapped (a new term I found on the internet) model of the earth.
I grabbed a couple of high quality pictures from the internet, and just threw them into Banate CAD, the same way as I created the moon shot, and there you have it!
I'm sure someone is dying to tell me the earth is an oblate spheroid, and that I can't model it strictly as a sphere, but I think at these sizes it won't really matter.
Instructions
1) Print
2) Rule the Earth
3) Rejoice!
2) Rule the Earth
3) Rejoice!
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And the whole of the texturing is less than the error rate introduced by the printing :P... how to express a 10 mile deep ocean trench on an 8000 mile wide sphere.
Yeah, I've heard that if the entire earth where shrunken to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth. (and just double checked that so as not to perpetuate false stuff... and yup! true) So, hard to make real representations of it without exaggerating things a bit.