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.

Mollweide projection
Mollweide projection of full planet with 30° gridlines
Stereographic projection
Stereographic projection of detail (with daylight shading)
Mercator projection
Mercator projection of another planet with 15° gridlines
Orthographic projection
Orthographic projection of same

Download zip file

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.

See manual

The manual is a plain text file describing command-line options and instructions for compiling the program.

Conference slides


Torben Mogensen
DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 København Ø
E-mail: torbenm@diku.dk Telephone: (+45) 35 32 14 04 Fax: (+45) 35 32 14 01