There used to be an ocean here, but no more. Blame it on celestial mechanics or some other stellar phenomenon - maybe temporary (but tragic) effects from a nearby supernova?
Specs:
Standard power fractals for the terrain displacements. Custom power fractal stack group for most of the rocks and terrain. This stack gives incredible detail both macro and micro (and takes some extra time to render to). I used an image map for the sand to speed up the rendering time. The clouds are from the clip file I recently posted in my other image thread. Used an image map of Jupiter mapped to a background planet.
Minor postwork in Photoshop: color balancing, contrast, sharpening
Res: 1024x768 (finally!)
Detail: 0.8
AA: 10
GI: 2/2 (with surface detail)
Time: 14 hours over 2 cores
Many thanks for viewing. More images to come.
if its a sea bed...dont you think everything would be more eroded....
Quote from: dhavalmistry on February 19, 2008, 11:35:04 PM
if its a sea bed...dont you think everything would be more eroded....
LOL :D
Quote from: moodflow on February 19, 2008, 11:56:12 PM
Quote from: dhavalmistry on February 19, 2008, 11:35:04 PM
if its a sea bed...dont you think everything would be more eroded....
LOL :D
caught cheating......RED HANDED!!!!! :D
heh nice
WOW!!!
Well, i think the underwater erosion is a much longer and slower process, which is very different from the erosion seen in the shorelines...
This is very good, moodflow. Still don't know if the nearby planet would look like that. Interested in the "physics" of how you set it up.
When we have transparency we need to see this again with ocean still there. ;)
Quote from: nvseal on February 20, 2008, 08:44:35 AM
When we have transparency we need to see this again with ocean still there. ;)
I second that! 8)
My interpretation of this image is that it is meant to represent an environment that was in the distant past (Orders of millions of years) a seabed environment, but due to outside forces such as continental drift that sea became dry, there for that seabed now exposed would be subject to the same weathering and erosion forces as any other environment: weather that be hydrological, wind or chemical or any combination of these.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel