POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.animations : Flying through space : Re: Flying through space Server Time
27 Jun 2024 17:36:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Flying through space  
From: Timothy Groves
Date: 22 Sep 2007 06:02:08
Message: <46f4e820$1@news.povray.org>
Rune wrote:
> Timothy Groves asked in povray.advanced-users for suggestions on how to make 
> high speed in space visible, possible using many small objects flying past.
> 
> The animation here shows the effect of speed by making many small objects 
> fly past the camera in a cube area around the camera. The good thing is that 
> no matter how far the camera travels, the number of objects is constant - in 
> this case only 600 objects. To add richness to the feel of vast space, I 
> used a small cube with small objects and a bigger cube with bigger objects, 
> to both simulate close objects flying fast past the camera and bigger 
> objects that can be seen at a longer distance.
> 
> The savings in parse time and memory may not be very big in this small demo 
> animation, but for a longer animation, where the camera travels much 
> further, the savings will be huge by using this method.
> 
Thanks!


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