Yet another Jupiter variant

[ffutures]

I'm going with the text curved around the graphic, adding the moons to the same scale:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/temp/jupiter4.pdf

This is a bigger illustration so a bigger file, about 100k. Remember that a lot of this is overheads that will be absorbed in the total file size for the finished book, e.g. different fonts.

I think this works pretty well, unless someone can give me a good reason otherwise.

Comments

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

Beautiful indeed. I wouldn't mind it as a wall poster. Metric A1 size would be cool! :0)

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Is there something funny about the texture of Jupiter? or is it just how it displays on my machine? Anyone else see what I see?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's processed for a coloured pencil look, if that's what you mean.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That would be a huge graphic - you'd need to start from scratch with a very large Jupiter picture and work out the relative size of the moons in pixels compared to Jupiter, which is how I did this one, maybe use NASA photos for the moons. At the scale I used when I started only the four Galilean moons were more than two pixels across, with one 1x2 and one 2x2, and 50+ one-pixel dots. But it got scaled up a bit for the final image, so the tiny ones are now probably a bit bigger than they should be.

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

And I have to ask: Did you purposely decide to flip Jupiter upside down? Normally the Great Red Spot is at the bottom of any picture of Jupiter that I've seen.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Oops... I think something must have got flipped, I've been so busy with the page layout I didn't notice. Easily fixed on the main PC - I'm on the laptop right now so it'll wait.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think that works. It shows the scale of Jupiter well and the text is easy to read.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Oh, it seems a bit too regular, but yes that is what I am seeing. It wasnt there earlier?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Try it now.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've just corrected the red spot thing, think I'm about ready to move on to the first moon...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It was, actually.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

It does look too regular for a sketch, as if someone has applied a (rather small) Photoshop texture to the image. At first I thought it was supposed to represent a fabric surface, but it looked wrong for that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a texture from Microsoft's 'Picture It' - I'll look at alternatives, but to me it isn't obtrusive enough to be worth wasting a lot of time on it.