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The
original earth map I found the original earth image on the internet. This image was at over 8000 pixels resolution, I used this to make the other textures I needed. This is a cloudless, and sealess image. I had to cover the sea with water, and color correct the land. This image is in mercantur projection, and perfect for spherically mapping to a ball. On this image the northern hemisphere has summer. |
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cloud map To create this image I used raw gray 8 bit weather images from the Goes and other satellites. the full disk pictures where originally in about 3000 pixels. These are the same ones forecasters use to predict the weather. Not the whole globe is available in hires to the public , so you need to do some creative work as well to get hires cloud image of the whole earth. |
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can buy pre prepared images from Arcscience.com. These are better than the one's I got here, but
are quite expensive for the higher resolutions. They do have some interesting
discounts however. UPDATE!!!! You can also go to my Planetary textures page to dowload 2500x1250 resolution maps in very good quality!! Take a look at it HERE |
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Click on the images to see/download 1000x500 pixel images of the textures. These are intended as reference for you to create your own textures. You can use them for your own experimentation, but it's limited because of the resolution. The cloud image is a simpler representation of the one I used. |  |
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How to map
the textures to a sphere?
Go
to Earth tutorial part 3
