You can turn a simple 2D image of a planet or the moon into a “3D” image using this 3Dfication.
Make sure you make square crop that fits the planet or moon with only a small margin, of the image you want to use for 3Dfication. Using animation, you can make movies like this and this. AVI’s need the DivX codec.
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[...] 3Dfication 3Dfication is a simple and powerful idea. Its author, Niels Noordhoek has developed a nice software that converts the image of a planet (or the Moon) into a rotating sphere creating a kind of flyby illusion. You may download it from his webpage here: http://www.njnoordhoek.com/?p=485 [...]
[...] software es diu 3dfication i et permet posar una imatge de la superfície d’un planeta i animar-la en 3 dimensions. [...]