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| (...) Thanks, Gil! It's my pleasure to share this with everyone and help get the creative juices flowing and gather input to improve my techniques. I'll try to keep the info coming. I know I'd like to go over how to make a canyonesque planet but I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| (...) One of the controls you can also use is the sphereize filter in the Distort menu. That will allow you to create or drop in a scan of a continent and stuff. From there you define a circular area (Shift circle to get a perfect circle)and then (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| Clouds are tricky. I haven’t figured out the best way to render them yet, but take a look at this pic: (URL) that type of “cracked and craggy” planet is a lesson by itself—I’ll get to that in another post. Anyway, for those clouds, what I did was: (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| (...) etc. In the past, to make those sorts of things, Ive used the 'render clouds', then distorted the image in various ways. Of course that always entails ugly amounts of work since the cloud rendering always has that same sparse fractal dimension (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| (...) Actually my "more accurate rendering" was done with pencil and paper. I suppose I could scan it. As for astronomical accuracy, I just thought somewhere in the back of my mind that the lit spot on the planet was somehow different from the way (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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