Been a while since I done one of these, but found this nifty site called PlanetMaker. To quote the site : “PlanetMaker allows you to create and tweak your own planet using image textures, lighting, and more importantly, your imagination.”
What this means is that, by going through the various sliders, options and other features, you can produce a detailed map of various planets and tweak them, such as…
- Earth, but from a particular angle, such as facing the south pole
- Mars – but with water and grasslands, a “living” Mars
You can, when generating your image …
- The local star (in our case, Sol)
- Add a ring system, like Saturns
- Change/add an atmosphere
- Variable backgrounds, like stars or another image
- Various visual effects like, blur, bloom and more
Note – I suspect this site may only work in Chrome – Have not had the chance to try it out in other browsers yet.
