Io - The Jungle Moon

[ffutures]

This is going to be very small on the page, about 1" square. Hope it gives the right impression of a virulently hot tropical jungle.

Comments

[kayshapero]

At first glance I thought it was a photo of one of these things. :) Grabbing a copy and shrinking it down to about an inch square on the screen.... for some reason the dark and light bits about the top begin to look like a hole in the top, making the whole thing look kinda like a pebble-surfaced vase.

[draconin.livejournal.com]

I would have expected a more green colour if it is to be jungle. It's too yellow IMHO, particularly on the left where there's even shades of red.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

The red's reflected light from Jupiter. My problem is that it's a little too textured; some of those shadow features must be tens of km across. At this scale, is the surface meant to be that uneven? I'd expect a flatter texture to the jungle, with broader features corresponding to different climatic conditions and geological features, I think. What does the Amazon jungle look like at this kind of scale?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Good point. Easy enough to fix, I think.

VOLCANIC Jungle World?

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

A thought: Maybe you should give it some of its real geography while of course going with Weinbaum's atmosphere and climate. Pulp jungles and volcanoes go together quite well: also, volcanic mountain ranges might on a low-gravity world with a real atmosphere be so tall as to poke out above the level most planes could fly. Mons Olympus on Mars does, after all, on a bigger low-grav world!

(*envisioning little rat-people sacrificing their own maidens, or maybe gigantic Earthly ones, to the local volcano god*)

Re: VOLCANIC Jungle World?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Oooh - nice idea. Thanks!

Re: VOLCANIC Jungle World?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

re the plane thing - that's an important plot point in The Mad Moon - the heroine's plane crashes because she misjudges an attempt to fly it out of atmosphere to leap over a mountain range.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Another thought: Jungles need a source of water: If you've got jungles you have to have seas, lakes and rivers.