Xplanet 2

[Latanya Hariri]

Ispend some more time with Xplanet and cqrlog. I was not so satisfied with the Nasa's Visible Earth Image, which came originally with xplanet. Within a cqrlog view, it has a lot of dark parts in the azimuthal view.

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Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file. Allof the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, and differentmap projections are also supported, including azimuthal, hemisphere,Lambert, Mercator, Mollweide, Peters, polyconic, and rectangular.In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. Some mapsare included in the xplanet-images package. Tags: Field: Astronomy, Geography, Games and Amusement: Toy or Gimmick, Implemented in: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, User Interface: Graphical User Interface, interface::x11, role::program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Learning, use::viewing, x11::application, X Window System: Screen Saver

Thanks. Yep, I'm working on some high-res bump maps too. I never knew how much you could get xPlanet to do. I'm getting it set up so that I can watch the weather move across the county to me. ;-) Once I get the bump maps setup, I'm probably going to be zooming in a little closer than currently, since the resolution will be much better.

@jackmetal: How are you doing the animations? I know that xplanet isn't realtime, so how often are you updating your image? I'm using 8m right now, but I've yet to add weather/earthquake data to the globe.

I've already changed the menu font and contents, but didn't bother with a new pic. It's not really a 'looks' thing, but how it behaves. But it's what I look at all the time - except that my app windows are usually fullscreen.

Script 1: basically just downloads the updated cloud/weather map. I changed it run every 4 hours between the hours of 6am-10pm (since I'm not on the computer in the middle of the night anyway, and found that it didn't change any more often). ;-) I don't like to put a burden on sites that provide free downloads to stuff like this (so they'll keep doing it), so I download it 'round-robin' from a list of sites that host it. I add all of my map downloads to this script. I'm in the process of making changes to this so that it will be more dynamic and updated more often by building my own maps so that I don't have to download them and am pulling weather and satellite images to build them.

WOW! Sounds like you've put alot of work into getting things customized. I'm not that far along, yet. I'm still working on some scripts to download maps and last night I added specular mapping to my globe. I hope to get some of the really hi-res maps from NASA and do a few one-hit renders today or tomorrow just to see how they look.

I'd be interested in seeing what you come up with. In case you wasn't aware, there is what looks like a pretty decent forum at the xplanet site I just recently joined, but haven't had the time to browse through it for tips yet..

I agree with you that getting sidetracked is easy when using xplanet to generate planetary renderings. Hell, I'm wasting so much time with this crap that I've not managed to get anything done for dibble's GIS project this week.

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