Does anyone know where I can purchase these models?

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spacerings

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I saw these in an email but can't trace them anywhere. I would really like to buy them. Does anyone know anything about them? They don't look homemade or like painted kits for kids.
 
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They are models of all of the planets plus the sun compared in relation to the planets' sizes They are so well done. I'm putting 2 other photos on also.
 
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spacerings

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Thank you for the link, but they don't seem as professional as the ones in the pictures. Anyone else know where I can get them?
 
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spacerings:<br />Thank you for the link, but they don't seem as professional as the ones in the pictures. Anyone else know where I can get them?<br /><br />Me:<br />The images look like CGI to me rather than physical models. If your referring to getting the computer models themeselves, and you use a 3D program. You can make the models by simply making high resolution spheres and flatten them slightly for that added touch of realism.<br /><br />What you are probably seeking is the image maps that are projected onto the spheres. I've posted links you can check out.<br /><br />http://www.mmedia.is/bjj/planetary_maps.html<br /><br />http://www.3dark.com/archives/space_textures.html<br /><br />http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/3Datlas_launch.html<br /><br />If your looking for actual world globe type models, I'm not sure where you'd get one of the planets. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>
 
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Hi spacerings,<br />I saw that email too. Pretty cool. <br />Maybe if you just reply to the email, explaining what you want to do, perhaps all the previous forwarders could send it back to whomever sent it to them, and so on, until viola! - it'll get back to the first person that sent it out and maybe they'll be able to send you a link or info on where to acquire your very own solar system!<br /><img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />(You never know, it might work....)<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>
 
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Thank you both for responding. Perhaps they are just pictures and not 3 D models. It seemed like someone had put serious time into getting the comparative sizes exact so I just assumed they were real models. <br /><br />I did try to reply to the person farthest back in the email list of names but I never got a response. Maybe I was spammed out. I will try again though. Maybe it will work....
 
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spacerings:<br />Thank you both for responding....<br /><br />Me:<br />No problem. They just might be pictures of physical models. But to me they have the halmarks of CGI that I can't quite describe in words but know it when I see it from working with it so much but again, I could be wrong. Its actually very easy to scale the models in the right 3D program. I have my own planet collection which I made and they were among the first 3D models I made when I started into CGI because I figured they'd be an easy place to start learning 3D model building. All made within mere minutes and to actual scale as in a sphere 7,926 miles in equatorial diameter...approximately 7,900 polar diameter for a medium polygon sphere. Map the big map image of Earth to the sphere, size it. Make another sphere slightly larger to map the clouds to. You can build an Earth model in around five minutes.<br /><br />The Sun model looks like it has a fractal procedural texture applied to it rather than an image map of the Sun. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>
 
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