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"Fernando G. del Cueto" schrieb:

> I like geography very much, so don't take this as an ignorant comment or an
> insult... Are you Afghan or what do you find so special about Afghanistan's
> topography?

No, I'm not a *real* Afghan... perhaps a virtual one ((:-> - if you take a look
a my earlier postings, you will see that I brought up the Afghanistan issue
several times before, even my very first picture here (October 2000, "Afghan
Sunrise") was an orbital view of Afghanistan rather than the otherwise
inevitable reflective sphere over a checkered plane!

What is so special about Afghanistan when it comes to raytracing? Firstly, it
is a country which elevations range from 280 to almost 7,500 metres, with huge
a variety of terrain shapes, from salt flats in its far west, bizarre buttes
and mesas somewhat more east (New Mexico's landscape has in fact been compared
with Afghan sceneries!), large dune fields, gently rolling loess hills,
dramatic gorges and canyons, fertile basins enclosed by steep mountain ranges
and finally the majestic grandeur of the Hindu Kush with its ice-capped peaks,
many of them never climbed by humans.

Then it is also a land with widely sparse to non-existing vegetation, so that
the bedrock is not blanketed by any soil - truly a geologist's paradise.

But there are deeper reasons for me to deal with Afghanistan... as the whole
story would be too long to tell here, you can read it at
http://home.arcor.de/yadgar/khyberspace/afghan-e.html !

See you in Khyberspace!
Afghanistan Chronicle: http://home.arcor.de/yadgar/index-e.htm

Yadgar

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