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31 Jul 2024 22:21:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: user-defined media density function  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 26 Aug 2006 16:02:32
Message: <44f0a8d8@news.povray.org>
> scale it to earth size, and squash it to fit the Earth's ellipsoidosity
> (That's a word. Really. I bet.)

I think the word is ellipticity, or you can use oblateness, since the earth
is an oblate spheroid shape. Though flattening, or equatorial bulge are
probably more descriptive terms.

sphere {0,1 scale (7900/7927)*y}


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