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Drain the Ocean, National Geographic special

Juramike View Member Profile	Aug 10 2009, 03:15 AM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345	Just saw this. Impressive use of CGI to show Earth's surface beneath the ocean. (Good geological expanations, too.) I was struck by one of the CGI animation color schemes that made Earth (to my eye) look like Enceladus. Definitely a great show! Link to show's website here. -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/

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Juramike

Aug 16 2009, 03:54 AM

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Played with the latest image of Enceladus and Google Earth....

Converted a Google Earth (Ocean) image into grayscale, reoriented, rescaled, and applied a few contrast gradients and Presto!

(The Aleutian trench is at center in the image (along the terminator). Earth's north pole is at 9 o'clock. Earth's Surveyor Fracture zone lines up with some of the cracks on Enceleadus at upper right.)

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Juramike Drain the Ocean Aug 10 2009, 03:15 AM

Juramike Played with the latest image of Enceladus and Goog... Aug 16 2009, 03:54 AM

jasedm Interesting comparison Mike - nice work! Aug 16 2009, 06:03 AM

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