http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=263350&cmonth=11&cyear=2008&cday=2
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=90&catid=4
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=33
Also in here is a bunch of procedural generation code where you can try to recreate for renders and animations using Frr’s texture node trees, the craters look cool and in the end you’ll be able to explore billions of planets in a procedural universe.
The new images are much better then those when the project started, but this is procedural generation at its best, and all allowing for a MMOG that would make current space based ones to look lame.