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Angle 6 might be better.
Brendan Ryan
Andrea Ryan wrote:
> 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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> > | O |
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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.
> >
> > camera {location < 0, 0, -250000>look_at <0,0,0> angle 2}
> >
> > --
> > Mike Williams + #
> > Gentleman of Leisure
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