Subject: Re: im_sun.jpg
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 07:35:17 -0500
From: ceverett@prairienet.org (Chris L. Everett)
>Anyway.. Just thought I'd praise that picture and tell you folks that I
>found a very nice Mercator projection of earth that wraps really nicely
>onto a sphere. Convert it to greyscale and it makes a pretty decent
>altitude map too. I was sent the picture in email so I don't know what
>FTP site it came from. The readme says only that it is from public
>data (as opposed to the "cloudless earth" image). I can upload it
>to aminet if somebody can tell me how :) Until then I'll consider
>mailing it to folks if you _really_ need it. I can post thumbnails
>to IML too (~29K message).
>
>Regards,
>Stephen
>____________________________________
>Stephen Wilkinson wilks@lbm.com "Programming is like pinball. The
>Software Engineer reward for doing it well is the
>LB&M Associates opportunity to do it again."
The mercator projection you're referring to is probably the one off of
aminet -- "pix/misc/earth.lha" is the file. Here's the readme:
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Short: Grey and color mercator projection of the earth
LONG: This is the archive from tp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de. It
includes gifs and jpgs of a color and greyscale mercator
projection of the earth from elevation data.
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I converted the GIFs to IFFs (never been a big fan of JPEG stuff...too
lossy) and created a nice Earth object fairly quickly.
Hmmm...that reminds me: Has the brush-mapping in Imagine 3.0 gotten any
easier? 2.0 sorta automated it, but many times it sorta did it all wrong
automatically. Any 3.0 users care to comment?
- Chris
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