18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
9:21 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:32:17PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:41 +0000, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Naturally. I'm really big on Open/Shared Source.
I've been hacking xearth recently to render
the Polar regions white.
Unfortunately, the shape tables are not commented, so I have to go
through manually to determine what shapes correspond to what land
features.
Now that's pretty cool. Will you be releasing it into the wider
world? :) I wonder if a modern version is overdue that does do
some pretty good
shading approximation of all the landmasses? And even better, some form
of chaotic cloud approximation to give it that real 'earth from space'
feel!
Hmm... I just did a trivial code tweak... the hardest thing I'm doing
is reviewing (and commenting!) hundreds of shape structures.
The former's probably not *that* complex (just
potentially a lot of
effort to set the static data up). I have no idea if the latter's really
possible for a desktop machine, even with some really basic
approximation of clouds...
The other thing is number of colors... xearth runs fine on an 8-bit desktop.
-ethan
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