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Mimas & Herschel Crater

Posted: 12.05.2002, 14:05
by ron
has anyone considered building a 3D model of Mimas to replace the existing sphere with an object that can better model the giant herschel crater. The 3D model itself can be a simple sphere for the rest of the moon but giving the herschel crater some relief should make it more impressive and better demonstrate it's size.

ron

Bjorn Jonsson's Mimas

Posted: 12.05.2002, 21:11
by Matt McIrvin
Bjorn Jonsson (who I think is the author of Celestia's Saturn ring texture) experimented with bump maps and triangle meshes for Mimas in POV-Ray:

http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/3dtest/

This data could probably be translated into something usable by Celestia. There were some horizontal artifacts apparently generated by his bump-map-extraction method.

Re: Mimas & Herschel Crater

Posted: 14.12.2003, 22:50
by Bob Hegwood
ron wrote:has anyone considered building a 3D model of Mimas to replace the existing sphere with an object that can better model the giant herschel crater.


Ron,

See the topic at http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=27616#27616
for more info and a picture of Mimas as I have it on my version of Celestia.

Take care, Bob