Planet generator
The planet-map generator shown of this page has been developed in
small increments over more than 20 years, so the code is a bit messy.
But if you just want to run the program, this shouldn't matter for
you.
The program runs from a command line, so no fancy GUI. Lots of
command-line options, though.
A few examples of maps generated by the program are shown
below. Click on the pictures to see larger versions.
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Mollweide projection of full planet
with 30° gridlines
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Stereographic projection of detail
(with daylight shading)
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Mercator projection of another planet
with 15° gridlines
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Orthographic projection of same
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Using monochrome colour map (yellow.col),
bumpmap and outline to emulate old-style maps. The map on the left
is a detail (using Mercator projection) of the planet on the right
(which is shown using the square projection).
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Last update: January 31 2012.
The zip file contains the source code (in C), a manual and a few
other files. You need a C compiler to compile the program.
Last update: November 29 2011.
The manual is a plain text file describing command-line options and
instructions for compiling the program.
The slides explain how the maps are generated and compares to other
map-generation techniques.
Torben Mogensen
DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100
København Ø
E-mail: torbenm@diku.dk
Telephone: (+45) 21 84 96 72 Fax: (+45) 35 32 14 01
