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2 Nov 2024 13:19:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: a planet  
From: PoD
Date: 17 Aug 1999 18:07:40
Message: <37B9DDAD.B709FE46@merlin.net.au>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Chris Huff wrote:
> >
> > >You will not actually see any gradation of a color_map used on a
> > sphere however unless it is CSG'd with another object, ie cut in half
> > with a plane.<
> >
> > Yes, and then you will only see it if the plane has the same texture.
> 
> ...or your sphere is transparent.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> See my 700+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
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...or the texture on the sphere has turbulence.
That's the way I do planets - sphere, onion, turbulence.

Cheers, PoD.


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