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    Crap, the bitmaps distort by the sine, though. Crap.

    Hmm.

    And it was such a wonderful, easy method! ... lol ....

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    w00t, I can correct for the trigonometric distortion, yay!

    Cripes, that was kinda like Hubble being nearsighted. Remember that?

    I guess I need to redo that microtute.

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    Post fixing the ring distortion

    Well, instead of redo the whole thing, I can just show the procedure for fixing the distortion. It's simple & short.

    1. Here's the problem. The view of the linear bitmap gets distorted when wrapped from pole to equator. The further we get to the edges, the more it shrinks. (Damn spherical geometry!) We want some space for the planet (and between planet & rings); that's black ... then we want three equal-sized rings: blue, red, and outer green.





    2. Here's the solution. First, reverse the direction of the bitmap, so the planet-center end is at the outside of the rings, and the outside-ring end is in the middle of the planet. See, the outer green ring is into the planet. The black "empty space" part is out at the edge of the ring system.



    3. Render it from the top. Cut a slice from the middle to the edge. Now we have a "reverse-distorted" ringsystem bitmap.





    4. Replace the original ring color bitmap with the corrected (reverse-distorted) bitmap. (Undo the 180 rotation in your W dimension if you have to). Voila! The rings are the proper width, now!


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    PRODUCTION SCHEDULE rev. 2009-04-12

    Sep-Oct Wayfarer #32 Chap.27 1. Titan
    Nov-Dec Wayfarer #33 Chap.28 2. Rings of Saturn
    Jan-Feb Wayfarer
    #34 Chap.29 3. Io
    .................... Chap.30 .. Klish
    Mar-Apr Wayfarer #35 X Chap.31 4. Ceres (Midnight City) - almost done
    May-Jun Wayfarer #36 - Chap.32 .. Ceres (The Cereal Reverence)
    Jul-Aug Wayfarer #37 -
    Chap.33 5. Mars - incl. Solar System Map!

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    PRODUCTION SCHEDULE rev. 2009-04-29

    Sep-Oct Wayfarer #32 Chap.27 1. Titan ......................... download
    Nov-Dec Wayfarer #33 Chap.28 2. Rings of Saturn ............... download
    Jan-Feb Wayfarer #34 Chap.29 3. Io ............................ download
    .................... Chap.30 .. Klish
    Mar-Apr Wayfarer #35 Chap.31 4. Ceres (Midnight City) ......... download
    May-Jun Wayfarer #36 - Chap.32 .. Ceres (The Cereal Reverence) .. in production
    Jul-Aug Wayfarer #37 - Chap.33 5. Mars .......................... incl. Solar System Map! (I HOPE)

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    I have 3 months MAXIMUM to finish this thing. So I had best ghet my ducks in gear again.

    iirc, I was on the planetary rings. So I'm off to find ring bitmaps.

    I also need to put the wings on Ceres.

    Once I finish the planets, moons & other orbiting objects, I'll get back to doing the map layout.

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    Wow, when you spend months away from a project, it really tales a long time to get back up to speed, huh. How inefficient!

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    Agreed. I start out "just taking a break" and it ends up more like a permanent vacation...so hard to get things fired back up again.
    If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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    After way too much work and confusion, I have done the ring-map compensations:
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    Wip Production Report

    Notice I'm not calling it "Production Schedule"; and this is why: I've decided to split the Mars chapter, like I've split the Ceres chapter. But I don't know if it'll be 2 or 3 pieces ... or, hell, 4, who knows. I have a lots of threads going that I might want to tie up on Mars. I dunno yet. Also, it'll push my timeframe for the Map Of The Solar System, because it won't be done in 6 weeks at the rate I'm going, and I really don't want to skimp more than I have to on this one. Yes, this is my master plot to string you guys out until the end of the year or beyond! Mwahahah!

    But, I'm posting the newly completed Chapter 32. The newly completed Map Of Ceres goes with it. So, at least I'm making some progress and producing some work, nay? That's what it's all about, after all.

    PRODUCTION REPORT 2009-06-27

    Sep-Oct Wayfarer #32 Chap.27 1. Titan ......................... download
    Nov-Dec Wayfarer #33 Chap.28 2. Rings of Saturn ............... download
    Jan-Feb Wayfarer #34 Chap.29 3. Io ............................ download
    .................... Chap.30 .. Klish
    Mar-Apr Wayfarer #35 Chap.31 4. Ceres (Midnight City) ......... download
    May-Jun Wayfarer #36 Chap.32 .. Ceres (The Cereal Reverence) .. download & Map Of Ceres
    Jul-Aug Wayfarer #37 - Chap.33 5. Mars (Fear & Terror)
    Sep-Oct Wayfarer #38 - Chap.34 .. Mars (part 2)
    Nov-Dec Wayfarer #39 - Chap.35? . Mars (part 3?) incl. Solar System Map! (I HOPE)



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