JPL CGL
Texture Maps
These are the texture maps seen in those old NASA animation videos. Originally, these maps were recreated by MagentaMeteorite, until some were recovered by Jim Blinn. You can find the recreated maps at MagentaMeteorite's post on DeviantArt, or you can find the recovered maps at Jim's website. Unfortunately, the maps are not in their original quality as they were converted to JPEG, a lossy image format.
Maps that Jim Blinn recovered. Reconverted back to 8 bits per pixel and realigned to their original position.
Maps recoveredÂ
This is an old version of Ganymede's texture map. It is used in some of the earlier Voyager animations. Also, this came from a video Jim Blinn made very recently and is not my friend's edited version.
Normally, this section would be the maps painted/created by Don Davis for the Voyager animations. But, since it's not recovered yet, it is currently empty. The Saturn map made by Don Davis actually exists, but it got tinted to yellow and he made it stormier. The Neptune map exists and is unedited except that it got resized to 720x360. This is the only unedited map Don Davis has. You try to revert it back by resizing it to 512x256 with nearest-neighbor scaling. However, this will not recover the original quality.
Maps that my friend recovered.
A low quality texture map of Titan which Rick Sternbach painted for the Pioneer animation.
Saturn from the pioneer animation, painted by Peter Blinn.
Saturn & Uranus texture map recreations
These are my recreations of Don Davis's Saturn and Uranus maps. I also sent the maps to Jim Blinn and Julian Gomez in case it helps them finding it.
The maps same above, except that Uranus is recolored to the Pre-Voyager animation, and flipped upside down for rendering in Celestia. Please note that the maps are not the official ones from Don Davis or Jim Blinn, and the Saturn and Uranus map have a few issues on them.
A better map of Saturn, selected in most of the recreated animations. One improvement is the north pole, which was originally bluish.
A map of Uranus, with more brightness and less saturation. Also fixed a few seams. The only difference here is that the poles are different to the 1986 Uranus flyby animation, because it uses the pre-encounter texture map but upside down.
Another better map of Saturn, with more accurate details, such as the equatorial belts.
More maps may come soon.