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There's a news report on the surface of Comet Wild 2 at this site; it has a cool anaglyph if you're into eyeball-crossing, and also a red-blue stereo picture. The shape of the nucleus is really extraordinary, with huge gouged-out depressions and steep cliff faces. In other words, a challenge for a talented 3ds modeller! Anyone working on this?!

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news97.html

Any modeller should not forget to take a 3D look. It's not round as it may seem. In 3D you look at a pin directly pointing on you - or like a very streched football.

maxim

I have made a model of Wild 2 based on the flyby pics,so I dont really know how accurate it is and one side is totally fictional
You can get it here
http://members.lycos.co.uk/jestr/extras/extras.html
I hope the ssc is correct I copied it from Thomas Guilpains Comets.ssc I think,Jestr

Sorry to say that, but that's really not how Wild 2 looks like. You should definitely take a 3D look.

Think of it as a shark or a torpedo with the head pointing towards the viewer.

maxim

I modelled it from the flyby pics here
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/
I think it looks like a fairly rough approximation.If you have any links to better images let me know,Jestr

Cheers Jestr, it's nice to have a model for this comet....and now I wait with bated breath in case there's going to be an update.

You mean this ones: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/cool.html?
No I don't have better ones. Fact is that in the flyby sequence it looks similar to your model, but the stereographic pics give a totally different impression. So I actually don't know which are the more realistic ones.

maxim

Hopefully Maxim someone will make a math model out of the data and it will all become clearer,Jestr