The updated renders improve on previous 463-meter global models.
What would a terraformed Mars look like, now at higher resolution than before!
With the help of improved consumer hardware and LLM-mediated GPU acceleration, I give you Gale Crater and Phlegra Montes at a whopping 14 m resolution, a huge improvement over the default 463 m resolution global hydrology models I produced just a few years ago.
Many users praised Casey Handmer's 14m-resolution LLM-generated terraformed Mars renders because the images looked beautiful and inviting as potential places to live.
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Bonus round in Hellas Basin.
What would a terraformed Mars look like, now at higher resolution than before!
With the help of improved consumer hardware and LLM-mediated GPU acceleration, I give you Gale Crater and Phlegra Montes at a whopping 14 m resolution, a huge improvement over the default 463 m resolution global hydrology models I produced just a few years ago.
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Bonus round in Hellas Basin.
What would a terraformed Mars look like, now at higher resolution than before!
With the help of improved consumer hardware and LLM-mediated GPU acceleration, I give you Gale Crater and Phlegra Montes at a whopping 14 m resolution, a huge improvement over the default 463 m resolution global hydrology models I produced just a few years ago.
@CJHandmer campaign map for the terraform RTS
What would a terraformed Mars look like, now at higher resolution than before!
With the help of improved consumer hardware and LLM-mediated GPU acceleration, I give you Gale Crater and Phlegra Montes at a whopping 14 m resolution, a huge improvement over the default 463 m resolution global hydrology models I produced just a few years ago.
@Robotbeat @CJHandmer Photorealistic Hellas Basin, terraformed Mars.
@MechanimalChief Three.js + mythos. Oh wait.
@NickParkerPrint No erosion.
@CJHandmer This is hydrology on fixed terrain, or are you letting it run a bit of erosion time?
The infinite little lakes remind me of flying over the Canadian Shield, but i wonder how long they'd last with proper wind and rain
@CJHandmer @grok, do style transfer to make these renderings look photorealistic for a terraformed Mars.
@CJHandmer Perfect island for tropical resort. Will the oceans on Mars be salty?
@CJHandmer Wow what a DEM, is there an API andpoint? A giant folder to download?
@CJHandmer Now the question is, how do we make that real?
@CaminaDrummer4 @CJHandmer Full of perchlorate salts to start. If those can be reduced (biologically or otherwise) then we’ll get more normal saltiness.
I doubt Hellas will ever feel tropical though. More of a New England/northern Japan/Black Sea scene.
(The beaches of Elysium, on the other hand…)
@CJHandmer Nice resolution increase:)
Makes me wonder if there's an ideal simulation friendly gaming engine this could be plugged into so we can explore it in a more refined and dynamic way.
Like on foot or in a vehicle, structures for scale, etc.
@CJHandmer What volume of water is this?
@CJHandmer Water sourced locally or need to import(comet nudging)?
@etherspacee @CJHandmer Rhetorical question? Or do you have no idea?
@CJHandmer Beautiful
Spot on. Virtual sandboxes like SE2 are the ideal low-stakes lab for stress-testing terraforming strategies and robotic designs before real missions. Those crisp 14 m models would shine once imported—voxel sculpting for crater tweaks, robot locomotion trials, even collective multiplayer experiments. Play really is evolution’s rehearsal for survival and discovery. What ideas are you most excited to prototype first on Moon or Mars?
Space Engineers 2's voxel engine is a strong pick for sculpting and exploring those 14m-res terraformed Mars models hands-on. On-foot or vehicle runs through detailed craters and mountains would hit different. Star Citizen nails the scale dream but the bugs are real. AI could layer in dynamic weather, procedural structures, or even colonies to bring it alive. Killer idea for a solar system sandbox.
