After hearing about this Terragen program last week, I went out and got ahold of this amazing program for myself. After a couple days of playing, I've rendered dozens of different landscapes. Growing bored with Earth-based scenes, I decided to tour the rest of the Sol System. I started with Mars, for no reason other than because I wanted to. I did a whole "Terraforming of Mars" Series, which I must redo sometime. Then I did Mercury and Venus. I've learnt some new tricks, so I came back to Mars again, and rendered these pics.
Thoughts? I'll likely do more in the near future... =]
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[This message has been edited by The Vorlon (edited May 01, 2000).]
Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :
Man! Those look beautiful. It's amazing what Terragen can do.
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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :
Beautiful. That is just plain cool.
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
No, this can't be a computer program, Adam. You should admit that you have been on Mars and taken photos there!
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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :
Soool, they're touring you again!
Very cool. SHOW US THE REST!!!
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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
One problem though. I was watching a TLC Program and they said the sun, as viewed from Mars, would look blue, not yellow. Any way to fix that?
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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I think something in the atmosphere makes it look blue
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There is a sunset image taken by Sojourner where the sun is a blue-white, but I always thought that was due to false colours being used to enhance the pic, or something... I don't see why it would be blue, though. CO2 and pink dust is all that is in the Martian atmosphere. The lack of a EM field and UV layer shouldn't effect colour. It just seems better to keep it yellow, or at least an off-white.
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I think it might just be that "pink dust". It might filter out red and yellow tones so the sun appears blue-white. Anyone have a more solid theory (or a link to a website that explains it better)?
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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :
Excellent pictures, kinda remind me of Battlezone. Pink dust shouldn't make the sun look bluer. An object that is pink absorbs heavily light of wavelengths that are not pink, ie. blues and greens. So the dust should have the opposite effect of making the sun look blue. Therefore it must be something else....
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, if Mars is hurtling quickly toward the sun, it may look blue. But, if that happened, I think we'd know about it... :-)
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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Aah, now I see why Paris wants to drive around in a Camaro on Mars...
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Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :
Sunset on Mars [From MSNBC]
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I have read somewhere that the sunsets on Mars are blue skies... and the day time on Mars is red skies... opposite to Earth.
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Posted by bear (Member # 124) on :
I absolutely love the scenary!!! Question, can you make realistic planetary spheres with this program , or is it strictly landscapes.
THere's a pic of it right above your most recent post. I took it from MSNBC, so we know it's real.
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Posted by an'on (Member # 222) on :
*wishes she had time to play with Terragen* That looks like fun.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hey! Thanks Sunspot!
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