Pluto's atmosphere

buzzzzz1 · March 02, 2009, 08:10:00 PM

You're all Wrong! This is Pluto!

inkydigit · March 03, 2009, 05:48:03 PM

very very nice scene....look forward to see more!

mcmiller · March 03, 2009, 11:10:59 PM

oo, I've tried doing this same image (or type of scene) myself for a very long time, and I've always come up way short. My results never even came close to what I had visualized.

This is very nice. Kudos to you for pulling it off.

Oshyan · March 03, 2009, 11:52:24 PM

Beautiful image. Love the glow effect. Did you also have the built-in antialiasing "bloom" turned on?

- Oshyan

mt_sabao · March 04, 2009, 04:12:03 AM

Quote from: Oshyan on March 03, 2009, 11:52:24 PM
Beautiful image. Love the glow effect. Did you also have the built-in antialiasing "bloom" turned on?

- Oshyan

$:-\$

oh, there's a bloom effect in the renderer? doh! so much to learn!!
Still, i prefer to leave some things where you can faster control in photoshop. Just as a side note, it's great that terragen renders in full 32bit, it's amazing the control one has saving the file in exr, and manipulating it in photoshop!

as a side note, the image has been appearing in some space/astronomy related websites: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/02/plutos-atmosphere-is-upside-down/

rcallicotte · March 04, 2009, 09:10:32 AM

Cool, mt_sabao. How did that happen? Kudos.

mt_sabao · March 05, 2009, 04:46:39 AM

Quote from: calico on March 04, 2009, 09:10:32 AM
Cool, mt_sabao. How did that happen? Kudos.

what, the image appearing in these blogs? Well, it's natural, as the image was done specifically to go with the science press/release. I work for the organization that made the discovery, so i was asked to do the image, and then this is sent to the press. So depending on the level of interest of the scientific results, it will end up showing in more or less blogs/sites/newspapers.
cheers

rcallicotte · March 05, 2009, 08:41:01 AM

Aha. That's what I was wondering. Thanks for explaining.

Cool.

Do you mean this organization? - http://www.eso.org/public/

mt_sabao · April 28, 2009, 02:16:33 PM

hei, just out of curiosity, I managed to do a few seconds of animation out of this image which was then used on the video podcast about the Hubble telescope:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/hubblecast27a.html (see 5m30s)

(out of curiosity, everything else is rendered in Cinema4D by my collegue M. Kormesser)

cheers
luis

tumasch · April 28, 2009, 02:46:21 PM

Nothing to add. Just great, I simply love the mood! Humble me has to learn a lot, apparently...