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Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures

Posted by timothy on from the decentralized dept.

loconet writes "Nature.com is reporting that a group of enthusiastic amateurs managed to process raw images of Titan from the Huygens probe faster that any of the giant space agencies in charge of the mission. Terragen, a freeware program that converts the basic brightness data in aerial pictures into a topographical map, to generate the ground-level vista was used."

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  1. Well... by Blue-Footed+Boobie · · Score: 5, Informative
    Terragen is awesome software, and amazingly the developers have kept the cost reasonable.

    I've been using it for some years now. It is surprisingly easy to load these grayscale images in a heigh-maps and get an accurate render. I'm kicking myself now for not thinking of doing the same thing!

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    DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
  2. Re:Karma Whoring.... with pictures! by spac3manspiff · · Score: 5, Informative

    you mean
    http://anthony.liekens.net/huygens_static.html