Over at the YW website's wallpaper page, we've just posted the first of a new series of AWoM wallpapers which DD has been producing.
These are wallpaper-format images of material she used to help her "scout" locations for the book. They're made using the Terragen scenery-generation software which is used by many well-known film and TV production companies around the world (as well as countless gifted amateurs). DD plugged actual Martian laser altimetry and radar terrain data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor probe into Terragen, and used it to produce first maps and then detailed "location photos" of places on Mars where key events in the narrative take place.
The first image is of dawn inside the northern-hemisphere crater Stokes, where Kit, Darryl and Ronan arrive together to quietly investigate some peculiar goings-on. Check it out:
Like all the other wallpapers to follow, this one is available in resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x800, 1280x960, and 1280x1024. All these files are hosted at Box.net. (We're going to be moving all the other wallpapers there as well, to help save bandwidth and storage space in the main site.)
New wallpapers will be posted once or twice a week until the book's official release date on April 14.
By the way, for those of who who may notice that the old "Aram Chaos / Red Rede" wallpaper is missing: there's a much better version coming, which will be posted over the next few weeks.
These are wallpaper-format images of material she used to help her "scout" locations for the book. They're made using the Terragen scenery-generation software which is used by many well-known film and TV production companies around the world (as well as countless gifted amateurs). DD plugged actual Martian laser altimetry and radar terrain data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor probe into Terragen, and used it to produce first maps and then detailed "location photos" of places on Mars where key events in the narrative take place.
The first image is of dawn inside the northern-hemisphere crater Stokes, where Kit, Darryl and Ronan arrive together to quietly investigate some peculiar goings-on. Check it out:
Like all the other wallpapers to follow, this one is available in resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x800, 1280x960, and 1280x1024. All these files are hosted at Box.net. (We're going to be moving all the other wallpapers there as well, to help save bandwidth and storage space in the main site.)
New wallpapers will be posted once or twice a week until the book's official release date on April 14.
By the way, for those of who who may notice that the old "Aram Chaos / Red Rede" wallpaper is missing: there's a much better version coming, which will be posted over the next few weeks.
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