Find the real Earth!

Little test for you.

One of these images is taken by NASA, one is rendered in Lightwave, and one is rendered in Blender. Your task is simple. Find the Blended earth, the render I just made in Blender.

Really this is a test to see how good my Earth model is.

Image One:


Image Two:


Image Three:

easy #1 but your earth looks awesome!! very detailed.

hehe #3 is Dean Scott's right? It looks like its from the tutorial he made.

1: The 'real earth' shot from Dean Scott's page.
2: Blender.
3: Scott's LW render.

Pretty impressive.

Blender is impressing me more and more every day.

I'd clocked that first one as real straight away. The clouds are impossible to properly replicate in a 3d program without a huge bump-map, and even then it looks wrong. The only thing I've seen that's able to look like real clouds is when you put cream in the syrup from a tin of peach slices and let it settle.

[Commodore-SirJohn]

Actually, what pegged the first one as real for me was the hurricane. I have yet to see any rendering do one justice...

[General Phoenix]

What tipped me off was the quality of the second and third images - far too clean to be NASA photos. The real photos have a slight grain and tint to them that's missing in the other pics.

Nonetheless, excellent work on the renders!

I think it's number three that you made as well

Uhm. So how come there's only two votes there?

aren't there three people who think that.