June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Finally, if you’re a fan of Manifold [Hack #65], an excellent and inexpensive
commercial GIS package, you’ll be pleased to know that it, too, offers 3-D
surfaces for all the planets in the Solar System; Mars and Earth are modeled
as spheroids, and the other planetary bodies are modeled as spheres.
Other Otherworldly Resources
• Ralph Aeschliman’s web site (http://ralphaeschliman.com/) is a delight
for the planetary-mapping enthusiast. Formerly a researcher at the
USGS astrogeology department, he has produced a beautiful series of
handcrafted art maps of Mars, Venus, and Earth’s moon based on GIS
data published by the USGS—highly recommended viewing.
• James Hastings-Trew maintains another nice gallery of planetary images
and data sets (http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/planets.html), with an
emphasis more on art than on accuracy.
Figure 3-42. The Valles Marineris and the Tharsis volcanos of Mars, rendered in POV-Ray
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• “Representing Star Fields” (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/povray/
starfield/) is a good tutorial on rendering star field backgrounds in POV-
Ray.
• Celestia (http://celestia.sourceforge.net/) is an open source “Universe
Simulator” with which you can “travel
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