This is a pretty cool wee gadget... Not great resolution, though.
http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/
Ahhh, I didn't realise Google Earth had a weather layer now, it's clearly better than this ^^. I must update...
This might make creating planetary cloud maps easier, and more believable. Can just the clouds be 'grabbed'?
I think yes, but only in Google Earth, not here(this just uses GE data as one of its inputs). I don't know, Njeneb, I haven't updated my version of GE yet.
Quote from: njeneb on July 25, 2009, 09:25:57 PM
This might make creating planetary cloud maps easier, and more believable. Can just the clouds be 'grabbed'?
http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/operations/NASA/clouds_4096.jpg (http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/operations/NASA/clouds_4096.jpg)
more here...
http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/clouds.php (http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/clouds.php)
dont know if this helps?
I downloaded the cloud image. The other looks interesting, but I am pretty sure Terragen 2 is much more powerful. I am also leary of the Cygwin compiler. It's been a long time since I have used it. When I did, the compile was only working well on the machine it compiled on. This is more likely something I did. C is not my favorite language. I like assembler.
Quote from: njeneb on July 27, 2009, 07:51:38 AM
I like assembler.
for its readability I guess? ;-)
@ FrankB: The code was simple to do. I could write right to the hardware, making everything superfast.
I did a Blender render using these 'grabbed' clouds. Well, enough said. They do make nice layered marble textures. ???