Blue Marble sphere mapping
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Using the excellent Modo, I mapped a few of Nasa’s Blue Marble earth image series onto a sphere. Here’s one rendering.
That’s a 5400*2700px texture map, which was enough to bring this 2GB machine to its knees. God knows how much memory you’d need to use the 21600*10800 map. I foolishly tried it, and force quit the program about 10 minutes later : /
I also did the “earth city lights” map:
As you can see, I am a true master of realistic lighting. Who needs a stupid “sun”.