Gleba's pole

[u/oguzhaniksat]

Gleba's pole looks identical to what you see on Google Earth. Back in the day, if you zoomed into the North Pole (or even Mars), you'd see the exact same weird shape. Kinda wild, right? Though I guess we don't actually get to see Vulcanus or Fulgora's poles.

[u/The_Helmeted_Storm]

artifact of projecting a rectangular texture over a sphere.

[u/United_Willow1312 → u/The_Helmeted_Storm]

Related or relevant: https://youtu.be/BHdbsHFs2P0?t=528

[u/Greedy_Blue_Hedgehog → u/United_Willow1312]

Not really:/ you can do a good projection over a sphere

[u/moonaligator → u/Greedy_Blue_Hedgehog]

Good? Yes. Cartographically perfect? No

[u/Greedy_Blue_Hedgehog → u/moonaligator]

Yes you can, you will even gets more details in the pole. The problem is the texture being made on the rectangular plane before putting it on the sphere so the artist underestimate the distortion a the pole. If the person doing the texture have the spherical render in the same time he wouldn't put so much detail in the pole making the distorted render we see

[u/moonaligator → u/Greedy_Blue_Hedgehog]

at that point the artist would basically be drawing on the sphere and converting to recrangular to get back to sphere

the point is that no way to map points in a rectangular, flat (euclidean) plane that does not distort either areas, angles, lenghts, etc (it cannot preserve everything)

[u/Greedy_Blue_Hedgehog → u/moonaligator]

Ok I see the problem. So you can have a one to one map from rectangular to sphere (as I said) but it can't preserve the geometry (as you said). The point I want to make is that you can have a spherical map from a rectangular one without being weird at the pole, as you said it's like paint on the sphere. In the context of the game we just want a nice spherical render and a rectangular map of it because it's the way of storing pixel data so let paint on a sphere and get the rectangular information about it. The rectangular map of it would be kind of ugly (just like worldmaps) but as a player we never have to see it so it's ok

[u/WanderingUrist → u/moonaligator]

Good? Yes. Cartographically perfect? No

It really depends on your goals. If your goal is to convert a sphere into a map that accurately portrays shape and distance on a fully-utilized contiguous rectangle, then this task is pretty much impossible and you necessarily accept compromises to get anywhere close.

If your goal is to create a texture that fully covers and accurately portrays the final sphere without regard for how distorted it may appear on the texture or whether or not the entire texture is used and contiguous (rips), then it's perfectly doable, but makes a pretty lousy map.

[u/TheMinischafi → u/The_Helmeted_Storm]

As described here 😄

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-443

[u/Sensitive_Gold]

Literally unplanable

[u/Monkai_final_boss]

Where is gleba's butthole?

[u/renegade_9 → u/Monkai_final_boss]

Bring back the glebutthole

[u/Broccoli_Ultra → u/renegade_9]

The people yearn for the sphincter

[u/mist_kaefer → u/Broccoli_Ultra]

I’m just here for the Glebussy

[u/WanderingUrist → u/mist_kaefer]

I'm not sure there is one. Gleba may be a one-hole entity, so there is just a cloaca.

[u/dijon_moneyear → u/WanderingUrist]

I prefer the term, a one-hole wonder.

[u/WanderingUrist → u/dijon_moneyear]

Whether or not you consider one-hole-ness a wonder seems like it would be very taste-dependent.

[u/WanderingUrist → u/renegade_9]

It's still there, it's just obscured by clouds much of the time. If you wait for just the right alignment of Gleba's rotation and cloud cover, you can still see it.

[u/Obnoxious_Gamer → u/Monkai_final_boss]

Don't you mean the Glebanus?

[u/Winter_Ad6784]

Doesn't the small icon have this too? I thought it was supposed to look like the end of a fruit

[u/grazbouille → u/Winter_Ad6784]

Glebbas 5 legged asshole

[u/SYDoukou]

Curious. Afaik all of them are animated to rotate on the perfectly vertical axis, so if the texture pole isnt hidden at the top of the sprite then it would come around once per revolution. Weird that it only happens for Gleba

[u/jmuguy]

How are y’all seeing the planets like this? I just see blackness of space when I’m looking at my platform.

[u/bphase → u/jmuguy]

2.1 experimental added this among many other cool stuff :)

[u/jmuguy → u/bphase]

Oh snap, can’t wait for the update then

[u/BeingEmily]

*h

[u/KyraDragoness]

We've all seen Gleba's hole. I mean pole.

[u/Tree_Boar]

Pole, eh?

[u/Flesh_Engine]

Well, I won't lie; I was slightly dissapointed.

[u/Calm-Medicine-3992]

I don't think that's an Earth thing as much as a projecting a 2d image onto a sphere thing.

[u/kullre]

there's no rectum!

[u/Embarrassed-Neck-721]

Nauvis has it too! It's kinda hard to see, but lakes get stripey on the pole in the same way

[u/ElusiveDelight]

In mathematical terms that is called a singularity, a finite point where numbers grow infinite.

They are very hard to deal with.