How to fit a map to a globe.
I have a post on my little blog about fitting a map to a globe without nasty pinching or discontinuities. Good for those who are as obsessive compulsive about realism as I wish I were.
Here you go.
Comments here or on the site are welcome. Please rate this tutorial!
Astrographer - My blog.
Klarr
-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.
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Know of any Gimp versions of the Flexify filter?
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Try Matthew's Map Projection Software.
I'll try a new revised post with GIMP and MMPS. I'm looking forward to jury duty so it won't be too soon.
Astrographer - My blog.
Klarr
-How to Fit a Map to a Globe
-Regina, Jewel of the Spinward Main(uvmapping to apply icosahedral projection worldmaps to 3d globes)
-Building a Ridge Heightmap in PS
-Faking Morphological Dilate and Contract with PS
-Editing Noise Into Terrain the Burpwallow Way
-Wilbur is Waldronate's. I'm just a fan.
depending on just what input data you have
MMPS is not bad
the main issues are the correct mapping at and near the poles
gimp has a built in tool to remap to polar projection
this in combination with the gimp plugin "Resynthesizer"
http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer
the source code
https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer
you can then "fix" the area at the poles
or
use the built in tool "heal" to fix small areas
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