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Published: 2010-10-03 06:47:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 10846; Favourites: 167; Downloads: 37686
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Description This is the background image shown (or should I say "hidden"?) behind the massive spaceship in the piece "View From Beneath" [link]

I liked how the planet turned out, so I thought it might be worth posting it by itself.

This view shows several moons in orbit around a colossal gas giant planet - which I call an "exo planet" because that is how planets in another star system are categorized.

This is a 3D scene with a modified Jupiter texture from the Celestia Motherlode [link] serving as the base for the gas giant.

The other textures are procedurally generated noise mixed with some generic "grunge" textures made in Photoshop a very long time ago now
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Comments: 11

Martinsweiger [2014-03-30 12:39:11 +0000 UTC]

Great!!!

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darkomiku [2012-01-21 18:38:49 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME AWESOME LEGENDARY !

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steve-burg In reply to darkomiku [2012-01-23 15:09:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you - I'm glad you like this one

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darkomiku In reply to steve-burg [2012-01-23 23:20:57 +0000 UTC]

I'm very interested in astronomy and modern fisic *-* but can't find a teacher for my age lol (toooo young)

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AngeloVentura [2011-03-05 20:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful!

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QAuZ [2010-10-05 17:52:32 +0000 UTC]

This has been featured [link]

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GeneralZadrek [2010-10-03 18:49:43 +0000 UTC]

Even though Jupiter looks pretty amazing with all the pretty clouds and storms, Saturn has always been my favourite gas giant. Saturn may be a bit dull in color, but the rings more than make up for it.

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steve-burg In reply to GeneralZadrek [2010-10-03 20:31:32 +0000 UTC]

The texture is made from Jupiter - but I doubled it up to make a "Super Jupiter" gas giant. I'm not sure what the upper range is for these kinds of planets - I believe they've found a number of them that are substantially larger than our own.

I agree about Saturn. And I think the less dramatic color is covering the fact that Saturn is actually an extremely stormy place

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sintar [2010-10-03 17:17:09 +0000 UTC]

WOW! I love Jupiter, looks like you could go through the picture and touch it. Just amazing, so clean and detailed. I wanna learn how to do this someday, I have this thing for planets and space. Great Job!!!!

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steve-burg In reply to sintar [2010-10-03 20:33:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Actually, if you ever wanted to give making a planet a try, the site link in the text has a lot of great stuff on it. Celestia is free, and kind of fun especially if you start adding stuff into it

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sintar In reply to steve-burg [2010-10-05 15:33:15 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, I'll check that out, thanks!

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