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Published: 2015-03-21 08:31:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 565; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 4
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I thought it would be nice to see a movie of the eclipse from 20 March 2015, as seen from space.The view point is located on orbit, at 40 deg N latitude, 20 deg longitude. Each frame is 10 minutes in real-time, starting from 7 AM to 12 AM, GMT.
I made the rendering with the fabulous xplanet program by Nati Meir (open source, free), the time calculation of animation in a BASH script, animation frames put together in GNU-GIMP and optimized it with gifsicle. I made some modifications of bump & specular maps of the globe (see the borders of the countries, in the full view).
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It`s like a tiny black ghost crossing the Earth 
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Thanks. Yes, indeed, like a tiny tiny one. A friend of mine have seen it and said "Oh gosh, I didn't know the eclipse is so small..."
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Anytime and yes indeed, especially when comparing to Blood Moon as well.
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Can you share the bump map? I would like to include it on Mandelbulb3d
I can add credit if you need
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Hi,
short story:
I used as the sources for the maps:
1) Heightmap of Earth's surface (including water and ice); (take care, it's enormous in size, so be sure you click save as... not click directly on the link:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
2) Matching specular maps from The Celestia Motherlode:
www.celestiamotherlode.net/catβ¦
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Long story:
I already put my maps & everything online, in an older project that uses xplanet to draw nice images on the wallpaper. The project is called "planet-slideshow" on Sourceforge [ sourceforge.net/projects/plane⦠]
In the download there are the maps (specular, bumpmap, clouds etc) in subfolder:
../resources/xplanet_res/images
The images are about 5 mb in total.
Have also a look at the readme in that folder, I fully described there the sources & credits to other fantastic people that made these beautiful things possible. Also it is useful if you need other resolutions or colors, etc.
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Thanks! I got the srtm map directly.
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Thank you! I plan to make some animations of the full day&night, pretty soon.
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welcomed , sounds cool
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