Re: Looking for Site with Planet Pictures

At 02:14 AM 6/12/99 -0600, Leroy Van Camp III wrote:
>    A while back I ran across a Spelljammer site that had a large
>selection of images of planets and similar bodies.  These were
>small, to be used in a computer game, if I remember correctly.
>Just the kind of thing to take and create planetary charts for a sphere.
>    I have a sphere I was working on a long while back and I thought
>about taking those planet pictures and assembling them into a
>sphere map.  But, alas, it would seem I somehow lost them
>in my computer upgrade a month or so back.
>    Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about, and 
>what the URL is for the site that had those pics?  I am sure
>I could find it with a search, but I thought I would first try to
>save some time by asking.

I don't know the URL of that site, but I do have an URL for a Fractal
Worldmap Generator at:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~johol/fwmg/fwmg.html

It's probably the best tool out there for SJ fans. Just punch in a few
numbers and choose the spherical projection and you'll have a globe perfect
for SJ worlds.

Also, if you're a Windows user, you might get a kick out of a freeware
program called Wilbur. Its a fancier fractal generator, capable of creating
planetary globes or regular planetary maps. It does take a lot of fiddling
to figure out what the various fields do and what numbers to put in. Wilbur
can be found at:

http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/wilbur.html


Toby Mekelburg
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