HiRISE

Real-time 3D renderings of HiRISE Digital Terrain Models (DTMs). Implemented using pg, an OpenGL library for Python that I developed.

Discussion

The digital terrain models can be found here:

http://www.uahirise.org/dtm/

The models are in PDS format. GDAL is used to parse these files. A pre-processing step is required to generate a 3D triangle mesh and a normal texture. The normal texture improves the appearance of the rendering without requiring a highly detailed mesh.

Source Code

• https://github.com/fogleman/HiRISE
• https://github.com/fogleman/pg

Videos

• Flying Over Mars
• Exposures of Layered Bedrock Northwest of Hellas Region