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  Re: How much is TOO FAR and TOO BIG?  
From: Alain
Date: 4 Nov 2004 08:26:54
Message: <418a2e1e$1@news.povray.org>
Warp nous apporta ses lumieres ainsi en ce 2004-11-04 06:29... :

>Alain <aze### [at] qwertygov> wrote:
>  
>
>>Have you tried the good ol sky_sphere? It's "surface" is set at 
>>"infinity".
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>
>  Actually, technically a sky_sphere is a unit sphere (ie. radius 1)
>around the camera (well, not really around the camera, but around the
>origin of each ray). Not really "infinite". :P
>  (The reason why it looks like it's farther away than any other
>object is that its color is taken only if the ray did not hit anything
>else. Thus the color of the sky sphere looks like it's behind every
>object.)
>
>  
>
Even if it's not realy at infinity, it look like it is.


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