Computer Graphics
First Render with Terragen 2
Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photo realistic landscape images and animations. The original Terragen was/is available as a free download from Planetside. Terragen 2 was released as a technology preview with a beta release scheduled for Feb 2008. I played around a little with Terragen and made some test […]
Spacecraft Communications
Do you remember what the Astronauts sounded like during the Apollo program? What? Not old enough to have seen it or too old to remember? Well then, have a listen to this. I thought I would try to duplicate that classic sound. Its all about the Quindar tones. I added some pink noise, white noise […]
“Universal” Globe
Here is the opening from Heather’s leadership video. Its a ripoff of the Universal Globe. Paragon is the name of Heather’s gymnastics team. Used Blender to make this. The Globe is a sphere with the “blue marble” earth map as a texture. Extruded text to make the “Paragon” letters (one letter at a time). Made […]
3D Model of a MiG-15
Used Blender and Adobe Illustrator to make this model. Grabbed some blue prints from a Russian web site (including contour sections). Used Illustrator to trace the contours and the top and side views. Imported the resulting 2D drawings into Blender as a background image. Set up three views in Blender (top, front, side) and aligned […]
Asteroid Test
Here is a test sequence showing an asteroid floating thru space towards earth. It hits the Earth’s atmosphere and glows red before turning into a fireball. I used concentric spheres to model the Earth and its atmosphere. The Earth turned out ok, but the atmosphere isn’t quite right. The asteroid’s trajectory is too shallow so […]
Terrain Demo
This is a demonstration of the use of Blender, Terragen (.9), and Digital Eleveation Model (DEM) data. Downloaded DEM data from USGS for the Dixie Valley area NE of Fallon, NV. Used the 3DEM tool to convert the DEM data to a Terragen terrain file (.TER). Used Terranim to set up a camera track for […]
