A test of the recent NASA gift for 3D artists. by fireangel
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Description
Yes, they did it again. Not content with giving us free massive texture maps of the Earth so we can render it properly, NASA has now given us the moon too. View this full size and zoom in to see the details, especially close to the terminator line. You can download the bump map and colour map at huge resolutions and use them with a sphere in your 3D software. Here I used Blender because it is the fastest rendering 3D software I have, and it looks rather nice for the effort of just a few minutes. NASA did most of the work of course when they prepared the maps! I'll use proper star maps at some stage to generate the correct stars but for now the stars in this image are rather crude.
Thanks are due to NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio for the work in preparing these maps.
I will upload some closer views of the moon so you can get an idea of the detail available. I used a bump and colour map both 16384 pixels by 8192.
Go get the maps if you want them here:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720
Comments (4)
Crude stars or not, a beautiful image.
Thanks for the site, too!
WOW!!! That is fantastic!! Yep - I'm going to go grab this... And the Earth files as well... You really took this to a new level - or maybe I should say a higher orbit!
NASA is the best! I've got tons of images from Hubble, Curiosity, etc.
Superb Wonderful Image!
WOW, excellent and thx to NASA too !