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Mar 31 2008, 07:34 AM
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Mar 31 2008, 07:40 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
WOW Gladstoner, they're gorgeous!!! As a lifelong space art fan and collector I am very impressed. Love those Enceladus pictures, very evocative. Do you have an online gallery?
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Mar 31 2008, 07:55 AM
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Nothing as of yet.
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Mar 31 2008, 08:57 AM
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Interesting: http://dreamsofspace.nfshost.com/spaceart.htm
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Apr 1 2008, 03:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 809 Joined: 11-March 04 Member No.: 56 |
Interesting: http://dreamsofspace.nfshost.com/spaceart.htm I remember a lot (though certainly not all, or even most) of that art from the children's space books I used to read when I was young -- I wish I still had some of those books! Libraries have long since discarded them as "out of date", and used book stores rarely carry them. Chesley Bonestell was of course the best space artist from the period, but I am also partial to the work of Jack Coggins -- which, if not so technically proficient, had a wonderful way of capturing the darkness and loneliness of distant regions of space. |
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Apr 1 2008, 06:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Ludek Pesek did quite a bit of georgeous geologically more realistic space art for National Geographic in the late 60's, early 70's. There's at least one book of his space-art. He also wrote an early (first or second) manned-mission-to-Mars novel, I think the title was "The Earth is Near", with the obligatory problems and crew struggle to survive plotline. It was nothing spectacular, but it was well done and carefully thought out.
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Apr 1 2008, 07:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
Someone has been reading their KSR by the look of things. Nice graphic for a april fools. |
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Jul 20 2008, 04:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 716 Joined: 3-January 08 Member No.: 3995 |
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Oct 10 2008, 09:04 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 716 Joined: 3-January 08 Member No.: 3995 |
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Feb 18 2010, 06:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Here's my artistic impression of the view from 150 km above the T16 canyon of Titan on an exceptionally haze-free day:
Full resolution here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4367364580/ I used the same techinque as Gladstoner used in the first image of this thread, I combined multiple terrestrial photographs from my own collection then played with them heavily. -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Feb 18 2010, 06:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Mike, you did an amazing work!
Are the detailed surface features rendered with some CG software or based on reaal pictures from another similar place? -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Feb 18 2010, 06:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Thanks!
They are real pictures taken during some airplane trips over the last few years. The foreground canyon is Deer Canyon, Colorado, the mid background is a windfarm over Utah, and the sunset cloud image was over the flying over the Appalachians of North Carolina (always good for a hazy image - the cloud images were barely contrast enhanced.) -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Feb 18 2010, 07:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Would the sky really be blue? I was under the impression that quite a bit of oxygen is needed for that color, at least near the surface. Still looks cool though!
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Feb 18 2010, 07:29 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Yes it would - google for some Huygens descent imagery and spectroscopy, it's been quite well establshed.
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Feb 18 2010, 07:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Of course, the blue haze layer, I forgot about it! Never mind!
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