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Here's my camera statement. The Moon looks about right when it's viewed
from the surface of the Earth.
camera {
location <0,0,3963>
look_at <0,0,255500>
angle 4
}
Brendan Ryan
Mike Williams wrote:
> Wasn't it Andrea Ryan who wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I am trying to make a picture of the Earth and the Moon. One POV unit
> >equals one mile. The Moon is something like 250000 miles from the
> >origin and it is nothing but a tiny, gray speck. When the camera is
> >near the Moon, the Earth looks small too. Is there a limit on how far
> >apart objects can be? I might have one POV unit equal to 100 or 1000
> >miles.
>
> There's a sort of optical illusion that makes the Moon seem to be much
> larger than it is. If you take a photo that includes the moon with, say,
> a 50mm lens, the picture looks like this:-
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> A POVray image that uses the default camera angle will look similar. To
> get a decent looking photo of the Moon you need to use quite a long
> telephoto lens, so in POVray, that would mean setting your camera to
> something like this.
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> camera {location < 0, 0, -250000>look_at <0,0,0> angle 2}
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> Mike Williams + #
> Gentleman of Leisure
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