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Published: 2010-06-01 12:42:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 69928; Favourites: 380; Downloads: 2729
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I'm slowly redoing all my old textures. I recently purchased the same climate/fractal program that I had used earlier(shareware). This has allowed me to use it in more detail that last time and I am trying out some newer techiniques, as well as getting more accurate height map data.Again, all science is thrown out the window and lets not pay attention to physics or anything like that.... so lets terraform EVERYTHING over 250 miles in diameter.
Updated December 10, 2010. Finally fixed the terrible Martian lakes.
Updated February 9th, 2016 with much updated textures and height maps on many moons.
The list from L to R.
Earth
Venus
Mars
Ganymede
Titan
Mercury
Callisto
Io
Luna
Europa
Triton
Pluto
Titania
Oberon
Iapetus
Rhea
Quaoar
Charon
Umbriel
Ariel
Dione
Tethys
Enceladus
Miranda
Mimas
Night Version
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I've also been doing some terraform videos as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyQ1R… Jupiter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yopb7e… Venus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlgSlS… Moon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVNarl… Mars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsXzPA… (early)Mercury
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Comments: 86
This is a very interesting piece that you made here; kudos on the creativity! However, I do have slightly-different opinion about the colonization and terraformation of the planets you have listed compared to what I think might actually happen in the future.
It is well-known that NASA has another moon mission plotted for 2020, but at the rate the global economy is going, I don't think there will be a manned Mars mission before 2070. And to top it off, the economy is sure to experience a complete global collapse before the end of the 21st century, but that's another story. Around, perhaps, the mid-22nd century, the trauma our civilization experienced might encourage humanity to finally start expanding the playing field a little bit by colonizing and possibly terraforming multiple planets within our solar system and beyond. Out of the planets you have listed here, I have no doubt that there will be human colonial outposts on every single one of these planets, whether for collecting resources or simply dispersing our population, by 2400 AD. In terms of terraformation, I would find it hard to imagine every single one of the worlds on this list being terraformed. To me, the only world that has a chance of being successfully terraformed is Mars, because it's location, environment, and atmosphere make it the one easiest to terraform; all the other worlds listed (certainly not the moon!), have little to no chance of being successfully terraformed. All in all, Mars is percievable as a terraformed world, while the rest of them can be colonized but the people living there would have to find other ways to survive. It IS a neat picture, though, don't get me wrong on that!
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Lookin' good but I do have some suggestions.
* The specular of the water on the blue planets is too high; the atmosphere of a planet diffuses the light which reduces the overall 'reflectivity' of the surface because the rays are spread out
* The contrast between the land and water is a bit too high as well; the land masses tend to taper off into the oceans which reduces the 'edginess' of the land.
* The oceans are too uniformly blue; oceans have varying depths throughout which can be seen through the ocean; it's not such a big deal at small resolutions but at larger resolutions, it looks too artificial
* Add some non-uniform noise to the image; I realize that this is just a demo of the textures but when using the maps in an image, the noise helps with the believability
* If you can, increase the resolution of your cloud maps (ie - get more detail added to them) and add more nose to them; the clouds on the small planets are okay; but on the larger ones they're not convincing
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Check out my actual texture maps that I used. I put them in another gallery folder here on my page. You will see that I had done all you asked, you just can't see it from this picture. The cloud maps are not my own, I did not touch anything on them to mess up the quality.
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Beautifull and interesting work 
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Is it okay if I can submit this into a group ?
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HOLLY CRAP! AWESOME! but is titan already terraformed for metane based life?
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Terraformation is the act of modifying a planet's environment to support human life. Human technology didn't make Titan the way it is now; Titan's environment is 100% natural, though I'd imagine it would be suitable for methane-based life if it exists.
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Ya, though I wonder how you would terraform titan?
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I'm not really sure, but I can tell you this much: it'll be harder to terraform Titan than it would be to terraform Mars or even several other planets.
If I had to determine how to terraform Titan, I would suggest surrounding it with millions of one-way mirrors in low orbit, so as to absorb heat from the sun without letting any of it back out into space. That, plus releasing billions and billions of cubic feet of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide into the air should make the atmosphere breathable...
But that and the global warming caused by the mirrors will vaporize all the liquid methane and methane ice. This would increase Titan's air pressure to such levels that a person's skull would collapse in on itself! And with all the methane gas now in this newly-oxyginated atmosphere, not only will the entire planet smell like a really bad fart, but the slightest spark anywhere on the surface of Titan will literally ignite the atmosphere! The resulting explosion would be so big that it would have been seen as a second Sun from Earth, blown off the rings of Saturn, toss the surrounding Saturnian moons in all sorts of deadly directions, and overall result in the doom of the Solar System and Earth itself; in short, what was meant to be a new genesis turned out to be the final Apocalypse. And as for any potential Titanian life...well, the planet may still be intact, but any and all life on it's deep-fried surface would have been instantly vaporized, and if that didn't kill it, the lack of atmosphere would asphixiate what was left.
The point I'm trying to make here is that I think Titan can't be terraformed to be like Earth. It's too different, and it would require some currently-unknown alien technology that we can't even concider coming up with in this day and age. Besides, it would be too expensive, too dangerous, and (in its own unique way) is already a planet fit for life, just not Earth-life.
In all honesty, I would imagine that in the not-too-distant future, humanity will populate and colonize every round and solid world in our solar system, but the only planet in our solar system that I see with a potential for successful terraformation with realistic techniques is Mars, and even that is a touchy one. Besides, we would probably come up with alternatives for surviving on those "inhospitable" planets anyway.
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How about people move the moons of saturn in new much more distant orbits from the planet, titan will settle in a habitable zone known as the habitable tidal heating zone, IO around jupiter has overheating due to that.
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How do you plan to move the moons? In fact, how would you move them far enough from Titan without getting them getting caught in some new, potentially-collision-causing, orbits or just simply loosing it out in space altogether, along with all it's potential resources?
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Well, that tech would actually be avalible in the 151st century so it would be a long time
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Perhaps, if technology continues to advance steadily in it's current rate. Maybe even before then. But still, how would it be done?
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Idk, ask the ppl of the future.
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Okay, then...let me get my Time Machine and I'll get back to you on that! LOLOLOL (Sorry, I'm hardly ever serious in person.)
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Its okay, I was about to joke around myself, but you know, it'll happen.
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What'll happen? The joke, the terraformation of Titan, the technology to move planets or Titan going kaboom?
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I am pretty sure that they will move titan and be successful. Imagine if jupiter exploded!
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If Jupiter exploded, that will make its 60-something moons go all over the place, push half the Asteroid belt in our direction, and wrap up the solar system in a miniature nebula cloud, which would cause the skies of Earth to go murky, go dimmer, and potentially mix with the new Jupiter Nebula, turning Earth into a cold, dark, toxic world...and then the millions of asteroids and a Jovian moon or two will fly by to finish us off. In short, we'de be fucked.
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Big time, if a random star was just to fly through the inner solar system, we would be even worse, planets would be flying everywhere, asteroids will go hyperbolistic and crash into planets, and the gas giants would pretty much collide with the sun.
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It's fun to speculate about things like that, but I no longer have a reason to fear those moments, because there would be absolutely no way anybody here on Earth could avoid it in any of our lifetimes, and we all die eventually anyways. Besides, the chances of most of these things actually happening are insanely slim...although the part about a semi-terraformed Titan exploding like a tiny supernova seems kind of likely.... and if they did happen, it would be millions of years from now. So like I said, why fear them?
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Because I wouldn't accomplish the stuff I want to do in life, I don't wanna die angry!
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i have made phobos and deimos, the two moons of mars, that two moons aren't so roundly XD look at my gallery, that pictures are amazing XD
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Just out of curiosity, what programs do you use?
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Short Answer: MANY!
Long Answer: I use this program [link] with terrain height maps I got from [link] . I then take the output and fiddle around with it in Photoshop for several hours until I get a satisfactorily real texture map for a globe. I then use an old program called Bryce to render the scene you see there.
You ought to see some of my animations. Just search for Wyrmshadow on youtube.
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Generally for my space scenes I just use photoshop and make 'em 2D, so I'm impressed with your level of detail, it makes for some quite remarkable art.
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I just saw yours, and you're a good deal better at PS than I am.
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But you're a good deal better at 3D then I am!
And it's worth noting that my star is actually a combinanation of quite a few fractals that I made in Apophysis.
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I've got an idea, How about rendering one planet at a time?
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Already tried that in the past but I couldnt get the blending to work correctly... or have the sizes of the worlds stay accurate.
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What worlds (besides Venus, Mars and Luna) have been terraformed?
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Actually, now most of those worlds have been remade. Just compare it with the other images you've favorited. Sofar I haven't had time to redo Triton, and all the moons smaller than that. The larger ones, like Titan and the Gallilean moons I've remade.
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