Photorealistic Earth Rendering

Project:

Photo-realistic hi-res spherical texture mapping with bump mapping, specular mapping, and per-pixel lighting. Additional rendering techniques include mipmapping, multitexturing, and 8x anisotropic filtering.

Features:

• Spherical UV texture mapping
• Cg per-pixel lighting and shading
• Multitexturing
• Mipmapping
• 8x anisotropic filtering
• Real bump mapping (implemented via per-pixel normal map
• Custom Phong model
• Specular mapping (pretty oceans!)
• Uber-high-quality earth textures

Statistics:

• >40MB textures
• Large textures (4096 x 2048)
• 384 mapped textures
• 32,768 polygons
• 3.2768 fps

Future:

• Clouds!

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