File:Moon rotating full 220px.gif

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Moon_rotating_full_220px.gif ‎(220 × 220 pixels, file size: 7.69 MB, MIME type: image/gif, looped, 240 frames, 9.6 s)

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English: Animated rotation of the earth's moon. The lit side of the full moon is shown, as an observer looking from the sun's direction would see it. On earth, only one side is visible, but the moon rotates relatively to the sun during one month. In order to render the animation of a full rotation, images from spacecraft beyond the moon had to be used. At the terminator near the right edge, craters can be seen most clearly.
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This image was created with POV-Ray.
 
This image was created with ImageMagick.

The frames of the animation were created with POV-Ray, a free 3D rendering program. Two components are required:

  • A surface color map, free image from NASA's 1994 Clementine mission.
  • An elevation map (from USGS, public domain) with grey values encoding surface altitudes. The elevation map can be used as a simple bump map for fast rendering, or (as in this case) to reconstruct a full 3D model with realistic shadows.

Executing POV-ray rendering: 

povray +H220 +W220 +UA +AM1 +A0.03 +R6 +KI0 +KF1 +KC +KFI1 +KFF240 +Oframe Moon_rotating_full_220px.pov

Assembling the gif animation with ImageMagick: 

convert -loop 0 -delay 4 -dispose background frame???.png -channel alpha -threshold 50% +channel +dither -colors 256 Moon_rotating_full_220px.gif

Source file Moon_rotating_full_220px.pov: 

// Moon_rotating_full_220px.pov
#version 3.7;
#include "colors.inc"

global_settings { assumed_gamma 1 }

camera { location <0, 0, -220> look_at <0, 0, 0> up 0.00526 right 0.00526 }

light_source {
    <0.3,0,-1> * 200
    color White
}

// use true 3D surface
#include "functions.inc"
#declare ele=function{
    pigment{
        image_map{
            jpeg "moon_elevation.jpg" map_type 1 interpolate 2
        }
    }
}

#declare rs=0.006; // ratio of roughness to radius
isosurface {
    function { f_sphere(x,y,z, 1) + rs * (1 - ele(x,y,z).gray) }
    contained_by { sphere {0,1.01} }
    accuracy 0.00001
    max_gradient 1.2
    texture {
        pigment {
            image_map { jpeg "moon_surface.jpg" map_type 1 } }
            finish {
                ambient rgb 0.006*<1,1,1> // space is dark
                diffuse 1.4 // brightness
                brilliance 1.0 // seems most realistic
            }
        }
    scale <1,1,-1>
    rotate <0,-90+360*clock,0>
    translate <0,0,0>
}

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current23:56, 22 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 23:56, 22 March 2016220 × 220 (7.69 MB)Geek3 (talk | contribs){{Information |Description ={{en|1=Animated rotation of the earth's moon. The lit side of the full moon is shown, as an observer looking from the sun's direction would see it. On earth, only one side is visible, but...

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