Hi all,
This is my first (decent and finished) terragen2 image.
It was made to go together with a press release of a science discovery made with ESO (european southern observatory) telescopes.
(http://www.eso.org/~lcalcada/pluto/pluto-small.jpg)
the press release:
QuoteUsing ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto. The scientists found unexpectedly large amounts of methane in the atmosphere, and also discovered that the atmosphere is hotter than the surface by about 40 degrees, although it still only reaches a frigid minus 180 degrees Celsius. These properties of Pluto's atmosphere may be due to the presence of pure methane patches or of a methane-rich layer covering the dwarf planet's surface.
Read more in ESO 08/09 at
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-08-09.html
Fullres image http://www.eso.org/~lcalcada/pluto/pluto.jpg
I'm quite happy to see how terragen grew in these last months. It's great to see as it's approaching final release that's it's ready to use in real world projects in a humanly affordable time.
Cheers
out of curiosity, this is not a straight TG2 render. It has some photoshop work (levels adjustment, layer doubling for glow, color adjustment etc)
This is really amazing. I like the surface details. Thumbs up!!
Quote from: Hannes on March 02, 2009, 12:09:31 PM
This is really amazing. I like the surface details. Thumbs up!!
Thanks hannes! But i still have a lot to learn, I'm basically two years behind most of you guys, :-[ so lot's of catching up to do! but i'm super excited, this program is going to pwn!
FACT:
The atmospheric pressure on Pluto is only about one hundred thousandth of that on Earth, or about 0.015 millibars.
;D
excellent render !
Very good. I'd ask for more color on the planet, but there isn't any. Is there?
Quote from: calico on March 02, 2009, 02:03:27 PM
Very good. I'd ask for more color on the planet, but there isn't any. Is there?
well, no unfortunately no colors allowed. from the very little we know from the (dwarf) planet it's safest to assume grayish tones.
Very good surface and very realistically moonlike.
don't want to be an a**hole but Pluto is not a planet ^^
well not anymore...
Quote from: Seth on March 02, 2009, 04:52:40 PM
don't want to be an a**hole but Pluto is not a planet ^^
well not anymore...
I did say dwarf planet, didn't I? That's the astronomically correct designation ;)
uh ?!
i thought the official designation was plutoïd...
sorry then ^^
Seth is right the correct designation for Pluto is plutoid, as defined by the International Astronomical Union that are designated as a sub-category of dwarf planets.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel ;D
Quote from: Cyber-Angel on March 02, 2009, 06:16:20 PM
Seth is right the correct designation for Pluto is plutoid, as defined by the International Astronomical Union that are designated as a sub-category of dwarf planets.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel ;D
pluto is a plutoid. Plutoids are Dwarf Planets. Pluto is dwarf planet.
Syllogisms 101 ;D
QuoteUsing ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-08-09.html
they might as well leave pluto as a planet and save us the complications :)
yeaaah ^^
anyway, your render's good, man !
Yes well, I happen to know what Pluto is and is not thank you I've only been interested in space 30+ years for what its worth, any way good image. End of Line. ;D
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
You're all Wrong! This is Pluto! ;D
very very nice scene....look forward to see more!
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. 8)
Beautiful image. Love the glow effect. Did you also have the built-in antialiasing "bloom" turned on?
- Oshyan
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/
Cool, mt_sabao. How did that happen? Kudos.
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
Aha. That's what I was wondering. Thanks for explaining.
Cool.
Do you mean this organization? - http://www.eso.org/public/
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
Nothing to add. Just great, I simply love the mood! Humble me has to learn a lot, apparently...