It is time for a new shapemodel:

I have reworked it from the ground up. This time it includes a global map to further enhance its looks.

The map is devided into parts cut along the borders of the named regions designated by ESA:

I will add further enhancements as time goes by. I’m working on a ultra high resolution normalmap to bring out the very smallest details.

 DOWNLOAD HERE

The texturemap is Creative Commons CC BY SA-3.0.

The polygon model is copyrighted. I believe it to be original work so if you want to use it for anything other than personal projects and education I would like you to ask me first. (I won’t bite. I just want some rudimentary control over its usage. Drop me a line: “mattias at malmer dot nu”)

Source image credits:
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

Try my new “ROSETTA NOW!” page:

ROSETTA NOW!

It displays a synthetic view of comet 67/P  Churyumov – Gerasimenko from the ESA Rosetta orbiter position at the current date and time. It uses my digital shapemodel rendered with a timestep of 10 minutes. A few areas are flat due to lack of data. The sun is finally starting to shine on those areas and Rosetta is currently in an orbit that makes observations possible…

I am very happy to show these 360 spins of 67P that I created for Dr. Joel Parker (PI of the ALICE instrument on Rosetta).  He used them in his Lecture: “Catching a Comet with the Rosetta Spacecraft“. It was held at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder Colorado. I wish I could have been there to see it.

I made four versions. Two with cg dust added for illustration and two without.

The new model and its high resolution textures will be made available later on.