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From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 12 Jan 2009 07:58:06
Message: <496b3e5e$1@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.496b1d304590b7f02c9ab000@news.povray.org...
> "Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>> Who takes up the gauntlet?  :-)
>
> I would if I had the time these days: That earth model I used in the 
> "Not!" shot
> still needs a bit of polish anyway, improving the atmosphere colors,
> realistically modelling the IOR gradient and all.
>
> My fingers are itching like hell to jump on this, actually. If I wasn't 
> working
> on radiosity code these days, that's what I'd spend the nights on: Lunar
> eclipse as seen from the moon... astronauts and all included! Digging up 
> that
> half-finished Apollo spacesuit model again, polishing up the finished 
> Apollo
> Lunar Module... ah, what better setting to revive the heroes of my 
> childhood!
>
>
> Vade! Tempt me not, if you want the radiosity code to come to completion 
> any
> time soon...!
>
> (... Man, you're lucky that realistic lunar scenes *need* radiosity, with 
> all
> that indirect light reflecting from the moon's surface...)
>

[Satanas retreats a few steps, grinning]

Well, there is an incentive for you... :-)

Thomas


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