Realistic rotating Earth?

[tom95521]

For my space slideshow I want to visit distant planets but I need to tackle this problem first.

How can I make a realistic rotating globe without using a movie or animated gif and not having the option of using displacement mapping?

What I am trying to do is create a rotating globe from a mercator projection map of the Earth. Slide 2 splits the Earth into upper and lower hemispheres with +/-30 degree rotate X transformations. I think slide 2 does look better than slide 1. Now I want to split the Earth into 4 quadrants by adding 30 degree Y transformations. I'm guessing it will require more masks maybe with zones like in slide 3?

I'm hoping Lin or someone else has an idea. I know the easy answer is to use a movie or gif loop but I would not learn anything.

Thanks,

Tom

earth_transformation.zip

[xahu34]

What about using Blender?

Best regards,

Xaver

[xahu34]

I got the impression that FT3 produces static images.

Regards,

xaver

[xahu34]

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Apparently you can combine images into avi video using VirtualDub.

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Good luck! I'm sure you will show us your results

Regards,

Xaver

[Guest Yachtsman1]

For my space slideshow I want to visit distant planets but I need to tackle this problem first.

How can I make a realistic rotating globe without using a movie or animated gif and not having the option of using displacement mapping?

What I am trying to do is create a rotating globe from a mercator projection map of the Earth. Slide 2 splits the Earth into upper and lower hemispheres with +/-30 degree rotate X transformations. I think slide 2 does look better than slide 1. Now I want to split the Earth into 4 quadrants by adding 30 degree Y transformations. I'm guessing it will require more masks maybe with zones like in slide 3?

I'm hoping Lin or someone else has an idea. I know the easy answer is to use a movie or gif loop but I would not learn anything.

Thanks,

Tom

Hi Tom

I've just been looking for something to convert a positive digital image to a negative, my search pointed me to Gimp, while searching Gimp I came across an animated filter for a "Spinning Globe", don't know if it's any use. Didn't find what I wanted yet. Off to bed now.

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1

earth_transformation.zip

[fh1805]

My technical problem is vertical masks. If you look at slide 3 you will see that I want to create 5 vertical sections. Inside each vertical mask (rotated either 0/30/60 degrees) will be a copy of the 5 horizontal sections (hope that makes sense).

Tom,

If I understand you correctly, you are thinking of nesting a mask container inside another mask container? That cannot be done in PTE. Whether it could be programmed into PTE by Igor and his wizards will depend upon the library of graphics handling routines that they use.

What are you trying to achieve by your proposed improvement? A more realistic impression of the curvature of the Earth?

regards,

Peter

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Hi Tom

Hope you haven't been trying to get a camera on the moon???, just had a Nasa news flash about two objects hitting the moon. :P/>/> :P/>/> :P/>/> :P/>/>

Regards