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1 Jun 2024 03:23:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My LOTW project (145K)  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 30 Apr 2004 07:51:35
Message: <40923dc7@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> 
>   I finally found why SunColor seemed always too blue, and it was that 
> ovbious that I feel a bit idiot: Skylight isn't a sunlight model, but a 
> *sky light* model. Looking for first time at the original abstract 
> papers that Philippe Debar implemented, I notice that he only 
> implemented the one for the sky light simulation, so the SunColor 
> returned it's not the color of the sun, but the color of the sky at the 
> sun position. I'm using now instead the Blackbody() macro from CIE.inc 
> for the sunlight color, with variable temperature depending on the 
> altitude: Blackbody(2000+4500*Al). Of course, I still use the sky dome, 
>  and the SunColor for the fill lights.
> 

I am also a big user of Skylight.  That explanation helps a *lot*


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