{"id":4738,"date":"2016-07-29T02:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2022-08-23T02:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:07:59","slug":"new-titan-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/news\/blog160729\/","title":{"rendered":"New Titan textures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by my recent kayak hike, and looking on a work by Spock1108<\/a>, I made my version of semi-realistic-semi-fake terrain model of Titan. It have 16k resolution near poles, where famous seas and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons can be found.<\/p>\n

Header image: Titan's north pole. The Kraken Mare (the largest double-shaped sea at the top, the Seldon Fretum dividing it into two bodies), the Ligeia Mare (bottom), the Punga Mare (to the right) and numerious smaller lakes.<\/p>\n

Titan's south pole. Ontario Lacus (to the left) and other lakes.<\/p>\n

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Titan without clouds:<\/p>\n

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Shores of the Kraken Mare with Saturn in the sky (like if there were no clouds):<\/p>\n

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Sailng through the Seldon Fretum in the Kraken Mare:<\/p>\n

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The original map where seas and lakes are visible have resolution of 12k x 6k, while there more hi-res images of some areas exist. Maybe in the future, when the new hi-res global map will be released by NASA, I will update this fake elevation map.<\/p>\n

From the surface, resolution is very low (of course - the map is just 8-16k), and some artefacts are visible - imprecise transition from land to liquid methane. This will be solved when procedural terrain refinement will be implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by my recent kayak hike, and looking on a work by Spock1108, I made my version of semi-realistic-semi-fake terrain model of Titan. It have 16k resolution near poles, where famous seas and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons can be found. Header image: Titan's north pole....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}