Because I'm performing a brute force atmospheric simulation, I'm able to render the atmosphere from any point of view. After a few tweaks, I'm now able to render images from outside the atmosphere. Here are a few images that show what the Earth looks like from space. The planet's surface is currently an 18% gray Lambertian diffuse reflector.
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| The planet as seen from 200 km up. |
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| Same view as above, but with no atmosphere. |
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| A different view. Also 200 km up. Sun right below the horizon. |
Hey Peter,
ReplyDeleteI'm the lead of appleseed, an open source physically-based renderer targeted at production.
I've been following both of your blogs for a while now. Excellent work.
Franz
Hey Franz,
DeleteThanks for your comment! I'm happy that you like my blogs.
I've come across appleseed before. It looks very nice!
Peter