inaturalist VS gaseous-giganticus

You can submit sitings of Christmas Beetles here https://www.inaturalist.org/ or on the iNaturalist app

iNaturalist

Personally, I like iNaturalist for identiying wild organisms. The AI is well-trained and based on a regularly-updated taxonomic structure from established authorities. The ID suggestions incorporate the location of the observation to suggest species that are known to be found nearby. And most crucially, when observations are posted they're available for other humans to confirm or refute any ID suggestions that come from the AI. The AI suggestion is only ever the start of the identification process.

Search up the smallest bat in your area and browse photos of them at iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/

You can also just upload the pictures onto the website.

You could try getting the iNaturalist app to ID it

I think the curl noise paper is from 2007: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph2007-cu...

I've used the basic idea from that paper to make a surprisingly decent program to create gas-giant planet textures: https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus

Gaseous-giganticus - procedurally generates gas giant planet textures for space games, etc.

This is what gaseous-giganticus uses. Combined with some other techniques, it can help with making some clouds for earthlike planets, but not in real time. Mentioned here previously. The process I use for making earthlike planets with clouds for Space Nerds in Space is described here.

Here's my own gas giant thingy, which produces (what I imagine to be) decent results, but is quite slow.

Hi. I'm the author of gaseous-giganticus. You do not need to apply the patch, as it was incorporated into the source already a long time ago: https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus/commit/b3ca95f2f3975d6ca97029dae166e2daf068b3f0

I needed some gas giant textures for planets in my space game so I made this thing, which also ended up getting used by other people for their Kerbal Space Program mods.

Is that gaseous-giganticus output that I spy?

I've made a couple. For gas giants, gaseous-giganticus. For earthlike, or rocky planets, there's a program called "earthlike.c" in the space-nerds-in-space repo. Other than allowing you to supply an input image to use more or less as a color palette, they don't allow much in terms of customization, though there are quite a few knobs you can turn.

Most innovative thing, or what I'm most astonished I actually successfully pulled off against all odds, is probably gaseous-giganticus, which is a program that uses curl noise for procedural fluid flow(pdf) on the surface of a sphere to create cubemap textures for procedurally generated gas giant planets.