In the distant future... The Earth is underwater!

[Sum0]

No, it's not another disaster movie, it's my new Celestia Earth texture. It's based on the possible scenario of the ice caps melting and raising sea levels. I used a bump map of Earth to select the highest areas, then used the mask on a 2k Earth texture and bluified the rest. Simple, eh? Download it here.

Note - unless I run to the hills (of Scotland) i'm doomed, according to the map. How about you?

[chris]

Cool map! How much did you raise the water level? It looks like around 200m, which covers pretty much all of Seattle. I suppose I could relocate to the slopes of Mt. Rainier, but that has it's own hazards . . .

--Chris

[D.Edwards]

That looks pretty good. Now if you could take into effect the wieght of water on tectonicly active zones it would probably change your map some more. The wieght of water pushing down on the contenents would cause eclusions of magma at the weaker plate boundries and there would be numorous new islands and mountain ranges coming up here and there. Just though I would through that in. That was one of the reasons why the idea behind the movie WaterWorld was so stupid. #1 there isn't enough water on the planet to sink every land mass let alone stop volcanoes from building new islands. Then lets not even get into the fact that the suns radiation and brightness output is increasing as time goes by. Those same oceans are going to start to evaporate away. Earth will probably be as cloud covered as Venus in a few more million years and it will get hotter than hell here as well. It looks like my future mars is the place to move.

P.S. How about reworking this again and saving it as a bitmap or png. Your image is good but there is a great deal of color distortion in the oceans around whats left of the landmasses. It would look alot sharper and cleaner that way.

[billybob884]

It looks like around 200m, which covers pretty much all of Seattle.

Forget about seattle, 3/4's of the worlds surface is under water. I wonder if we'll be around if and when this ever happens...


Mike M.

[D.Edwards]

Heres a quick pic I took of a modified Sum0's flooded earth texture. I did a quick and dirty specmap for it and through it all together with Gimp and Photoshop. This is looking down over Africa of course. Take a look.
http://homepage.mac.com/donedwards/.cv/ ... g-link.jpg
Its not my greatest work but Sum0's Jpg image needs a little tweaking in order to get the specmaps right and clean up the coastlines. All in all it was a fun little 30minute job. All for fun and Sum0 gets all credit for a neat idea.

[Sum0]

That looks great! I would have added a specular map... but I don't know how...
I don't think you'll see a 8K version because my 56k modem would mean it'd take aaaaages, but i'll attempt a 4K version. A grayscale 8k would be possible though, but what would be the point?

BTW, does anyone know where I can find info about the extent of the ice age southwards?

[Darkmiss]

I think im going to move house,........... just in case

Somewhere high

[Buzz]

I already live below sea level, but with dry feet thanks to the dikes!

Buzz,
The Netherlands, also known as Holland

[Guest]

Aaaaaaah ! The whole of Wales is underwater !!!!

That was one of the reasons why the idea behind the movie WaterWorld was so stupid.

Maybe so, but it was a good movie !

Very interesting map, but I'm not too worried about this global warming lark (at least not for sea level rises). Living on a hill, I'd be more worried about glaciation - how about a map showing the Earth during the last ice age ?

(Mad Boris)

One of these days I shall remember to sign in.

[Sum0]

Well, I am gonna get round to doing a ice age one. I'm just a bit lazy.

[Pliskin]

Aww, I want to download this one but the link isnt working...

[eburacum45]

Most of the sites I have read about sea level rise anticipate only about 70-80m rise in sea level if Antarctica were to lose its ice; this is an unlikely scenario anyway, as Antarctica has been ice covered since long before the Quaternary ice age.

[piellepi]

Hi!
I would like to answer to your question (I suspect I'll be afraid about it, 'cos I live in Italy! ), but I cannot download anything from the link .
I always obtain the in-famous "404 error: file not found"

Could you help me, please?!

Bye
Pierluigi

[rassilon out of body]

I almost thought Sum0 had paid us a visit!....

[Guest]

if you have trouble uploading that big of an image, why not just zip it, and have winzip split it into pices that are more manageable?

[Dollan]

At least for me, the link has never worked. The file, apparently, was either removed or renamed shortly after it was posted. A shame, I would have liked to have seen the map....

...John...