POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Fast sky / clouds : Re: Fast sky / clouds Server Time
6 Aug 2024 12:26:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fast sky / clouds  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:20:16
Message: <3C97AB8F.2ACCF39B@gmx.de>
Rune wrote:
> 
> Yet another of those stacked plane cloud methods!
> 
> On my website I've uploaded the code for the sky I'm using for my WIP desert
> landscape image as seen in povray.binaries.images. I've gotten a request for
> the code, and also saw a general request for stacked plane clouds here
> recently.
> 
> My approach is not the most realistic maybe, but as it uses four planes
> only, it renders very fast.
> 
> If you're interested, have a look at
> http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk/3d/goodies/goodies.html
> 
> Please let me know what you think. :)
> 

Looks fairly good for only 4 layers.  And it looks quite a bit different
from the usual 1 layer texture clouds.  

For me personally it usually does not matter that much whether the clouds
take 1 or 10 minutes to render...

Christoph

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