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I have downloaded 1.6.0 from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/Celestia-win32-bin/celestia-win32-1.6.0.exe/download I quite like the green squares and circles, but there seems to be a different problem. In Windows XP Celestia displays a persistent red line, which appears to be the ...

That is a very nice texture. You can see that this texture is derived from the continents and oceans of Earth; a very interesting concept. One change that would make this map slightly better would be if the shallow waters had a slightly lighter blue colour. Looking at the map of Earth, quite large r...

That artist's impression is very similar to the sort of quality you can get using Celestia nowadays. With a bit of post processing and the use of large enough textures I think it would be fairly easy to make an image like that.

The dry, limestone-dominated world of Cenote http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Cenote.zip . . http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_cenote.jpg This one is 3075 ly from Sol, and I added a few smaller stars nearby, together with planets. The textures for Cenote are in this .zip, but to see the texture...

I've got loads, but I've only recently have found a way to upload them to the new Orion's Arm site. Here's another one Starlifting at Polaris http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Polarisstarlifting.zip ------------------- We haven't written very much about starlifting on the site yet http://www.orionsa...

An addon for seven artificial planets around Procyon http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Procyon.zip ------------------- the history page for the Procyon system is here http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4703bd683b72b ------------------- an image of one of the seven artificial worlds here http://www....

An addon for the planet Rufus and its five moons http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Rufus.zip ------------------- the history page for this world is here http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3bb4ef0f54d ------------------- an image of a conjunction between four of the five moons here http://www.orio...

Sounds like a good idea; I'll see what I can do.

Here's another cylinder, with a large parabolic mirror this time, which I've split up into separate sections, so that the centre of gravity is nearer the axis. Both lenses and mirrors can be flattened by dividing them up into concentric rings in this way. http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_CYLIND...

I've been trying to figure out the best way to collect sunlight with mirrors for use in a deep space habitat. One way is to use a 45 degree mirror as used in the Stanford Torus design, focus the incoming light using a parabolic reflector onto a, much smaller curved mirror which finally focuses the l...

Yours has fewer objects than mine, but looks like it might collect more starlight. Bob Jenkin's idea is to put a second, larger swarm outside the first at right angles; this would collect some of the energy the first one misses. But I can't quite get my head round how to change the angle of this tor...

There is a topic about this subject here; http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13209&p=110267&hilit=fomalhaut#p110267 I must admit that the image I created in that thread was mostly acheived using post-processing with Gimp; but I did manage to make a relatively accept...

A Dyson Swarm made using orbiting objects (solar power collectors) in a series of inclined, eccentric orbits. This kind of swarm was suggested by Bob Jenkins http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8904/jenkinsdysonswarm.jpg there are 26000+ objects in this image; the swarm could be made much thicker (by...

Excellent stuff!

Blakes 7 reminds me of when I first set up home with my wife; we had a washing mashine called a 'Liberator Twin Tub'
by the magic of Google image search here it is
The Liberator

Doing the laundry was the closest I could get to a trip into space in those pre-Celestia days...

Polaris as seen in the Orion's Arm scenario; this giant variable star is being modified by Starlifting to remove some of its mass and slow down its life cycle http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6278/polarisstarlifting2.jpg For more information about starlifting, see this wiki page http://en.wikipedi...

So you are curious about terraforming the Red Planet? First, read the Wiki page; Terraforming Mars then some of the references at tye bottom, particularly this one Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars You can browse through these essays at Red Colony Article Index note that some of these...

A short string of semi-transparent spiky objects all rotating rapidly at different angles would look pretty good, in my opinion.

By coincidence, the main gas giant in the Tau Ceti system in the Orion's Arm scenario is called Zeus too.
Here is a short animation;

If you want the flare effect in images taken from Celestia you can add it afterwards using the 'sparkle' effect in Gimp. (a free program).

The cloud maps made from the Xplanet data seem very good to me; are you asking how to vary their appearance? I use Gimp to make some changes - you can make them hazy, more transparent, copy and move bits of the map around, erase bits; I often make parts of the cloud map completely transparent, or ad...