File:blue-marble-posterized.png

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Summary

Simplified version of NASA's Blue Marble. Yellow areas are generally deserts or harsh mountainous regions.

Suggested usage: for superimposing other data in black and/or white.

Map projection: equirectangular (geographic)

How it was made:

  • Opened Blue_Marble_2002.png (1600x800 version) in mtPaint (an open-source image editor)
  • Applied gamma=150% to blue and green channels (but not red channel)
  • Applied maximum color saturation, repeatedly
  • Posterized the image, on the most extreme setting
  • Replaced red spots with yellow
  • Flood-filled antarctica to white

File history

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current03:28, 7 August 2022Thumbnail for version as of 03:28, 7 August 20221,600 × 800 (30 KB)Elie (talk | contribs)

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