Tycho Crater produced from data gathered by Laser Altimeter onboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
1:500,000 scale, vertical exaggeration 4x.
2nd growth yellow pine salvaged from 3 x 12 joists removed from gut rehab of Manhattan sweatshop built in 1920's. 1/8" tapered ball-nose cutter from precise bits for finishing pass took about 90 minutes: a hundred passes to the inch for about 1000 passes.
This will be used on a thermoforming machine to make copies in .020 polystyrene and then painted in relief.
Tycho Crater
Tycho Crater
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Re: Tycho Crater
Do You have stl file?
Miguel
Miguel
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Yes. what would yoy like to do with it? I have a number of locations in preparation.
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scottp55
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By the way......GREAT JOB!! 
scott
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Impressive!
That would make a great wall texture tile...
Mike
That would make a great wall texture tile...
Mike
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Very nice!
I would also be interested in the .stl file. I like to play with my machine and learn while playing with it.
I would also be interested in the .stl file. I like to play with my machine and learn while playing with it.
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Very cool... Have you thought about doing a YouTube Video of how you create the files?
I've kicked around the idea of doing this for earth topography, For instance if a city wanted a relief map of their city limits to hang on the wall of city hall...
I've kicked around the idea of doing this for earth topography, For instance if a city wanted a relief map of their city limits to hang on the wall of city hall...
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As an amateur astronomer and CNC nutcase, I would also like to share in your data for personal use only.
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hi,
can you please tell me what process you when thought to obtain the data. it is a bit complicated! which mission, instrument, data set and any tips would be very appreciated.
sincerely,
richard cohen
can you please tell me what process you when thought to obtain the data. it is a bit complicated! which mission, instrument, data set and any tips would be very appreciated.
sincerely,
richard cohen
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https://finkh.wordpress.com/ is the site I use for astro stuff.
https://finkh.wordpress.com/3d-workflow/ has some instructions which may be a shade out of date; the PDS site changes regularly. You want to find a page with a Data Set Browser tab and then click it to get to LOLA.
For Mars and other worlds, the data is in .img format, which needs a GIS (Geographic Information System) to convert to a tiff file that Mathematica uses. I will tackle those this summer.
If you can live with equirectangular format and don't mind the lack of curvature, you can download .jp2 LDEM files (you will need a converter for photoshop but there are free ones available) and crop to get a grayscale that should open in aspire, after saving as a tiff or png. (both 16-bit) formats. (NASA doesn't seem to mind http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/moon-nearside-farside) Don't use jpeg as it is eight-bit.
https://finkh.wordpress.com/3d-workflow/ has some instructions which may be a shade out of date; the PDS site changes regularly. You want to find a page with a Data Set Browser tab and then click it to get to LOLA.
For Mars and other worlds, the data is in .img format, which needs a GIS (Geographic Information System) to convert to a tiff file that Mathematica uses. I will tackle those this summer.
If you can live with equirectangular format and don't mind the lack of curvature, you can download .jp2 LDEM files (you will need a converter for photoshop but there are free ones available) and crop to get a grayscale that should open in aspire, after saving as a tiff or png. (both 16-bit) formats. (NASA doesn't seem to mind http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/moon-nearside-farside) Don't use jpeg as it is eight-bit.
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i sincerely thank you for the information.
rich
rich