-NiteLite- Poster

I used an image from NASA (see the link below) showing artificial lights at night. The image is wrapped around four spheres, each one rotated 90 degrees relative to the one before, so the whole surface of the earth is visible. After this was done I applied several effects to create the glow and rays. Then I spend a lot of time perfecting the image, adding text, etc. This image is created at 5250x3500 pixels (huge size) to make sure that it'll look good at all sizes. It was not easy to do all this on my computer, a 200mhz pentium 1 with only 300mb left on my harddisk :) I often had to save, exit and reload to clear up swap space so I could apply effects. No quality loss here by the way, because I used a format that doesn't affect the quality with repeated saves, unlike for instance JPEG-files. I was quite happy when this was finished :) Light map image courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002200/a002276/index.html If you have any comments, suggestions, etc. mail me at: rheeren@hsbos.nl