Closing in...
Added 2016-01-23 19:03:35 +0000 UTCAlmost have a final continent layout, with climatic zones (will add rain shadow deserts/green zones later)
Coloring will be interesting, as Chriirah plant life has red leaves! It will be a very burnt, dry looking world.
Clouds are via NASA's Blue Marble, I will be using those textures a fair bit both as photomontage and reference sources.
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I remember that article too! I need to do a little more research, but I seem to remember them suggesting red plants might exist under a more high energy sun? I am also considering that red might be a protective or structural pigment, like in some red earth plants and algae.
Alex
2016-01-25 08:31:16 +0000 UTCWill the red plant life be the result of some spectral feature of the star? I remember an article a while back about folks using comparing assorted plant pigments on Earth to niche illumination environments to develop a model for what spectral markers might suggest alien plant life, based on the evolutionary pressures of a star's particular light.
KM
2016-01-24 20:51:59 +0000 UTC
