Image from columbia
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Image from columbia
Wasnt sure which forum to put this in...
Check out this image taken on a cloudless day at sunset from the space shuttle columbia.
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdm/columbia.JPG
Check out this image taken on a cloudless day at sunset from the space shuttle columbia.
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdm/columbia.JPG
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Looking at it, I just don't believe that's a natural image.
Too much detail in the sea - what are those bevelled ridges south-west of Spain?
Also the difference between light and dark is not right. Particularly around the Netherlands and the northern tip of France, the transition from day to night looks like two badly overlaid images.
If this is a picture from the Columbia, why is it not hosted on Nasa's site?
Too much detail in the sea - what are those bevelled ridges south-west of Spain?
Also the difference between light and dark is not right. Particularly around the Netherlands and the northern tip of France, the transition from day to night looks like two badly overlaid images.
If this is a picture from the Columbia, why is it not hosted on Nasa's site?
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That's done usining the NASA textures, like the ones I was using in my "shady planet" demo thread, the experiment using shaders, but higher res. You can download earth textures up to 400 megs in size; and they have better ones yet, on request. The features in the water are simply water color averaged over time. It took NASA many years to average many pics, to get light-source independant (i.e. ambient like lighting) color information, AND cloudlessness. The pic is a fake for sure; there's NEVER a day with no clouds at all over so much expanse. The city lights texture is also from NASA.
There's one program I know of that could have generated this: The Space Station Manager, which uses Ogre3D as back-end renderer; even though it's a commercial program. They have a free demo, though. The day/night transition is definitely not right.
There's one program I know of that could have generated this: The Space Station Manager, which uses Ogre3D as back-end renderer; even though it's a commercial program. They have a free demo, though. The day/night transition is definitely not right.
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Peanut Gallery? You're being too kind.
Besides, having a wank like that around might be nice...we're all so unified against him, we tend to forget our own differences It's like a red-headed stepchild situation.
(all apologies to any redheads who might also be someone's stepchild. ..unless MadCow is one, in which case my insult still stands.)
Besides, having a wank like that around might be nice...we're all so unified against him, we tend to forget our own differences It's like a red-headed stepchild situation.
(all apologies to any redheads who might also be someone's stepchild. ..unless MadCow is one, in which case my insult still stands.)
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And I was so sad the other thread was closed one day Never got to tell MadCow how bad a troll he is. Now it's my chance at last!
AFAIK, etymologically the word "Troll" for internet trolls is derived from trolling (the fishing), which means raising as much attention and quarrels without too much effort. Which didn't work in his last big thread, after he silenced people began discussing creatively about this and that, so that this would-be-troll had to come back to start the discussion again...
Ok, that's it, slightly OT, even in this forum.
Whoever finds some irony tags may keep them.
AFAIK, etymologically the word "Troll" for internet trolls is derived from trolling (the fishing), which means raising as much attention and quarrels without too much effort. Which didn't work in his last big thread, after he silenced people began discussing creatively about this and that, so that this would-be-troll had to come back to start the discussion again...
Ok, that's it, slightly OT, even in this forum.
Whoever finds some irony tags may keep them.
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As I recall, I just ignored him at the time because I couldn't really make sense of what he wrote, and didn't feel like starting a futile discussion. I assumed chuck meant the same.klauss wrote:Noone should be ignored until they ignore you back. Like MadCow did (by never listening).
I felt exactly like chuck_starchaser, when we wrote:
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How about a ranking system just for people like him?
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