Tag Archives: gis

Using Blender to Bake Icosahedral Maps

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Astrographer

Getting back to my usual maps and planetary textures, today I am responding to the comment by Gregrox, here. I did previously make some recommendations for converting equirectangular maps to the icosahedral projection, but Photoshop and Flexify are far from … Continue reading →

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Using GIS Tools and Data 2

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Astrographer

Starting with what we had done by the end of the last post, I would like to continue on to doing some actual analyses using QGIS, GRASS, and my other GIS-type tools. This post has been a long time coming, … Continue reading →

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Using GIS Tools and Data

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Astrographer

There is now a second part here… Recently(…-ish) I found something on the Zompist forum that I found interesting. Gareth3 was using an existing real world data(in this case, Stewart Island off of the southern tip of New Zealand) scaled … Continue reading →

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More Noise Generation

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Astrographer

So after a bit of research trying to figure out how to do some things with OSL on Blender, I figured out a few things which may prove to be of use with some other apps. As much as I’d … Continue reading →

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MMPS

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Astrographer

I may have found another way to flatten imagery and maps onto equirectangular projection. Matthew’s Map Projection Software, created by Matthew Arcus, is a suite of command-line applications for creating and re-projecting maps. At least on my Macintosh, it was … Continue reading →

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Painting Planets Using Blender’s Texture Paint Tool

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Astrographer

I’ve been interested for awhile in using the Texture Paint tool from Blender to paint on the globe. There are a few things that you need to know how to do to make this technique work. First, you need a … Continue reading →

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A Resource for Learning Quantum GIS

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Astrographer

I found a nice set of video tutorials for learning the use of QGIS at Mango Map. The first module introduces the QGIS interface. The second module goes over the basics of creating a map. It looks like further posts … Continue reading →

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Big Planet Keep on Rolling

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Astrographer

My intended post for last week took so long that I decided to simplify things a bit. I was going to discuss prettifying the tectonics.js output and making a blender animation of the prettified planet spinning. I’ve learned a lot … Continue reading →

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Realistic Plate Tectonics with Tectonics.js

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Astrographer

For some time I’ve had an interest in terrain generation using simulated tectonic processes. I’ve successfully used PlaTec, but it’s strictly 2-d and the output is pretty limited. Another one that seemed promising was pytectonics, but since it froze my … Continue reading →

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Placing Raster Features Using GPlates

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Astrographer

Today we’re going to look at using the gplates program to place pre-created raster features on the globe. For minimal distortion, we will begin by placing the raster at the center of the map, where the central meridian crosses the … Continue reading →

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