POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : real world size : Re: real world size Server Time
7 Aug 2024 03:17:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: real world size  
From: Andrew
Date: 4 Dec 2001 15:25:00
Message: <3c0d311c@news.povray.org>
> It seems like this would work, but for some reason it doesn't. If you
make
> a sphere with a radius of 400,000 units with an ambient value as high
as
> you like, and place yourself 93 million units from it, you will not be
able
> to see it, as you would the sun from the earth. I don't know if it is
an
> internal math thing in POV-Ray or what, but I know that it is ture.
Try it.

Yes, setting radius=4 and distance=930 works.  Multiply by 10 and
repeat, and it works, all the way up to 40,000 and 9.3 million.  Then it
just disappears.


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