Um, this is “real” footage. Start with 110,000 images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s Wide Angle Camera; now add some Brobdingnagian pixel manipulation to recast solar and viewing angles; voila.
I guess if you have to kill the buzz you could call it “photometric rotoscoping,” but where in the world (oops) do you get “hi-rez texture projected on a sphere”? Or am I just being silly by having read The Fine Article?
