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2 Nov 2024 13:18:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: a planet  
From: Ken
Date: 17 Aug 1999 18:15:16
Message: <37B9DEE8.F2533A20@pacbell.net>
PoD wrote:
> 
> 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:
> > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
> 
> ...or the texture on the sphere has turbulence.
> That's the way I do planets - sphere, onion, turbulence.
> 
> Cheers, PoD.

... or the texture is translated to some point from the origin or...

-- 
Ken Tyler

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