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12 Aug 2024 17:11:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sunny plasma in POV-Ray?  
From: Remco de Korte
Date: 28 Jan 1999 15:22:23
Message: <36B08EB5.307A5139@xs4all.nl>
Ole Laursen wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to create a sun in POV-Ray and I need a red-orange-yellow texture for
> the surface. The problem is that I want to animate it so that it looks like the
> sun is... erm... boiling? (damn! I forgot my Danish-English dictionary) I think
> one of those plasma effects that you always see in demos, will do, but is it
> possible to make this in POV-Ray?
> 
> BTW I need to make a cyclic animation with the sun (for a game), so is it
> somehow possible to tile the surface so that I only need to rotate the
> sun-sphere for instance 90 or 180 degrees?
> 
> I'm currently using a partially transparent, bozo patterned textured sphere with
> a few medias to get the right 'feeling' of surrounding gas...
> 
> --
> +- Ole Laursen - Aalborg, Denmark - 98z### [at] aalborghusdk --+
> | A barber in an ancient city shaved all those who did not  |
> | shave themselves. Did the barber shave himself?           |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+

I'd suggest using a bozo-texture with cycling parameters.

Remco


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