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Luna


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tics can be some troublesome.

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 so the users who click this link might find SOME value in this thread, i will post a picture of our galaxy.

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The day we're able to take a picture of our galaxy, is the day it will probably take around 100 years before the digital image of it is recieved.

Best guess is that is either another galaxy, or it's a simulated dipiction of our galaxy.

 

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 you totally forget quantum entanglement. it's going to change everything :D

BTW, spatial, could you possible create a 3d sci-fi looking topographic model of this island

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Depends how much detail has to go into it. If it's just a satellite view. I'd model a surface and apply textures I stole from google earth, make and apply a bump map so the light bends and curves so it doesn't look like an image on a surface.

When we look closer at an island, the details get more insane, then more modeling comes into play.

In short, how the model will be used plays a role in wheather or not I'll be able to do it. When it comes to high detail on land scapes, or modeling city blocks, the most practical way we do this is with Lidar technology. It can scan large areas with sound or radar and we get a 3D model which is then cleaned fixed textured and finished.

What do you want to do with that ?

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 well, i certainly don't want to take too much of your time~



Thge idea is to create something at about this detail. It would go on the home page of the tourism website we're developing, and users could interface with it to identify places to visit, and then new information would be shown.

it would need to be 3d becasue I'd like the user to be able to spin and stuff. as you cna see though, yo udon't see trees, or cars or anything. simply a topographic map with blue lines.

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I take it you want the whole thing, and not just parts. I'm installing Google Earth right now so I can check out this Hainan Island.

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GEE WHAT A HUGE PICTURE, WHO TOOK IT GOD???!!11

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 Even at the low detail, I couldn't promise you accuracy if I had to do the entire place. There are countless hills there.

I'm a software renderer. I can do 3D for interactive hardware rendering, but then you'll have to hire a game programmer to work with a web programmer to set the interactive controls in motion. You're so extra, we don't see much of this going on online. A website that can do that, I'm afraid to know how much it would cost, and how much it would be worth.

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 Papervision 3D engine. Interesting study.

 

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