Venus Map with Feature Names Options

[JRehling]

This is downright heroic, Machi. I'd like to think that a map like this could get someone thinking about the need to go back to this world, which looks wonderfully new in your work. Incredible.

[machi]

Thanks!

Yes, I hope so too.
Venus or especially its surface is still not well understood and available data are not comparable to that, which we have for the Moon or Mars.
For example, Magellan's altimeter had pretty low resolution.
Every altimetric measurement covers area 100 to 1000 km2 large.
For comparison, Mars Global Surveyor MOLA's laser spot had size under 0.1 km2.

[Robotbeat]

Thanks so much! Incredibly professional, the best I've seen of any Venus map!

Do you have a source for the elevation data? Ideally I'm looking for something like a greyscale heightmap image (PNG or something), but I'm curious as to what your source was.

[JohnVV]

Do you have a source for the elevation data? Ideally I'm looking for something like a greyscale heightmap image (PNG or something), but I'm curious as to what your source was.

i can post the data i used
in simple cylindrical projection
from 2048 x1024 up to 65536x32768 pixels in size
but it is 16 bit unsigned little endian

a 4096x2048 8 bit normalized ( 0 to 255 ) png


the remapped "browse" image
http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/mgn/mgn-v...002/gtdr/sinus/

[Robotbeat]

Thank you! I plan on using it to make a 3d model (for printing out on Shapeways). If/when I finish it, I'll share it here.

[JohnVV]

Thank you! I plan on using it to make a 3d model (for printing out on Shapeways). If/when I finish it, I'll share it here.

then you WILL need a 16 bit image to start with
there is a PDS ( .img) Blender 2.6 import tool that takes a PDS DEM and converts it to a sphere

or you can use say a perl script to convert the 2d x,y,z( px value) into 3d x,y,z

[Robotbeat]

Thanks, but I think this will work for now. 256 levels isn't too bad for just a bumpy sphere (it will be tessellated anyway); it worked fine for Mars:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26311

EDIT: For clarity, I didn't make that Mars object.

[machi]

Robotbeat:
If you want elevation data as DEM, then I recommend you DEMs from MG_3003 dataset.
Or you can download shape file, which Mark Wieczorek did.