Mars Explorer with HiRISE DEM/Texture |
Mars Explorer with HiRISE DEM/Texture |
Feb 2 2010, 01:34 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 26-January 10 From: Reading, UK Member No.: 5192 |
I've modified my Mars Explorer terrain engine to use the new HiRISE data. This video shows me flying around the Gullies DEM. It's running at about 30 fps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gt7XDaXAWg I hope to make a download of the software available in the next week or two. - Adrian |
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Feb 15 2010, 06:09 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 26-January 10 From: Reading, UK Member No.: 5192 |
Thanks for the comments.
@Nirgal. I don't know of a c/c+ library for MPEG encoding I'm afraid. I just output bmps and convert to mpeg using bbmpeg. Here's another animation, this time of Gale crater. I have increased the texture resolution from 1m to 0.5m since the last animation. I'm still not using the full resolution of 0.25m. Until I get some new hardware that's not going to be possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0Z3cKJaGQ |
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Feb 15 2010, 11:41 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Here's another animation, this time of Gale crater. Good... grief... I feel like I've just been flying over Mars with John Boone in his plane... unbelievable... Am I the only person here feeling Something Is Changing with these animations? We're really starting to reach a new level of armchair exploration. It's animations like this that - if they're made with no vertical exaggeration, to avoid confusing people - will really allow the general public to 'visit' Mars, and begin to think of it as a real world in its own right, a place worth the expense and danger involved in sending people to, instead of a distant dream for nerds. Just fantastic, thank you. -------------------- |
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