Hey guys, Im working on a project and I need a flattend map of the sun… you know map type, like a flattened earth map that you would apply to a sphere and it woudl be distortion free…
but of the sun.
I’ve searched high and low on the net and cant find anything.
does anyone have any suggestions or resources (paid or free sites)?
thanks
Mike
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/sol.php
You might like those too:
Planetary maps:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2355
http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/earth.php
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/spaceart/cylmaps.html
http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/planetary_maps.html
Hey Richard, thanks for the links.
I had seen some of these previous in my search.
Have not found anything suitable for the job at hand…
oye…
What kind of image would you need? Perhaps one of those turbulent bubbling surface of the sun-type ones? How close would you get to its surface?
This is a very odd and ill concieved project that I have to work on. Against my suggestions, the client wants to have some form of displacment on the surface of the Sun. The reason being is that it will be part of a plastic set that we will be prototyping.
So, one could imagine that if the sun was instantly frozen, what would the surface be(other than cold lol).
I would imagine it might be similar to the surface of the ocean if it were instantly frozen.
So, blah blah blah out of my mouth, but the end result is that I need a detailed map that I can use to drive some displacment.
Im finding some images that I might be able to stitch together to use for this.
Thanks for suggestions everyone.
Mike
I’ve often used a map of Venus to fake a sun map.
If it doesn’t need to be dynamic, this trick can be very convincing.
Maher
Maher, thanks for the suggestion. I actually was thinking about using a distorted map of jupiter but maybe venus is better.
Thanks!
Mike
Hi Mike,
I’ve just produced a project involving the sun. You can see a thumbnail of it here:
http://www.joetucciarone.com/RedGiant.mov
I did it in EIAS v6.5.2; the only extra plugin you need is Mondo Clouds for the sun’s animated surface texture. If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll email the project to you.
Joe Tucciarone
Joe, that is really impressive. :bowdown:
What was that for if I may ask?
It would be extremely instructive to have a description of your technique in a PDF form. Unless you would like to do a full step by step video… Which would also be OK…
Very cool animation. I know we’re kind of hijacking this thread, but I would third the request for a tutorial on that.
Nice job.
Joe, that’s some very nice looking work you’ve done!
Thanks for offering the material, I apprciate it!
I have found a map that will do the job!
I also would be interested on a quick rundown on your project, I espicially like the surface effect on your sun!
Mike Fitz
www.3dartz.com
Hi Gang,
Thank you all for your nice comments on my sun animation! I’m in “over my head” with projects right now but I’ll put together a recipe for this project, hopefully in a week or so.
Richard, you asked what this animation was for . . . last summer I did a set of animations for a National Geographic documentary. One of them depicted our sun in the far future, swelling into a red giant and swallowing the Earth. I liked it so much I wanted to do a version for my own portfolio. The clip I did for Geographic used the Crumple shader (animating the x and z values) as the sun’s animated surface texture. However, the lawyers at Geographic said my version had to be altered significantly, so I used Mondo Clouds as the animated surface for my sun. I’m glad they insisted, because I like my version better than what I did for them!
Joe T
Hi Everyone,
I finally have some time to make my sun project available. I’ve broken my original EI project into 9 files, each one representing a render-pass. I also have the After Effects file that brings the rendered passes together so you can see how the animation was generated.
I’d be happy to email the files to anyone who wants to see them; the 10 files take up 1.8 Megabytes, so it wouldn’t be too horrendous. If I had any technical skills, I’d put the files where you could download them or produce an instructional video. Alas, I don’t have those skills!
Sincerely,
Joe Tucciarone
Joe,
Please send them to rick@eias3d.com I am very curious to see your setup.
Thank you for making those available.
Joe and Richard,
Any chance of hosting these files at EIAS3D for those of us who are hesitant to post our email address publicly? I would really like to see these as well.
Thanks,
Ross
Hi Ross,
I’d be happy to post my project files somewhere, if I knew where and how to do it!
Joe T
