POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Improving media performance : Re: Improving media performance Server Time
29 Jun 2024 02:16:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Improving media performance  
From: SharkD
Date: 27 Jun 2010 11:58:17
Message: <4c277519$1@news.povray.org>
On 6/26/2010 1:59 PM, Alain wrote:
> Not for the presure.
> As the air in the center may, under some conditions, rotate slightly
> faster than the station, the presure *will* diminishes from the surface
> toward the center.
> BUT, as the radius is /only/ 1 Km and quite probably a rim gravity less
> than Earth's gravity, the presure gradient will be relatively small,
> possibly small enough to be neglected. Maybe in the order of 2% or 3%.
> After all, you realy don't need a full Earth gravity, something between
> 0.5G and 0.7G should be enough.
>
>
> Alain

If I remove the density map, will rendering times change? Also, how 
should I specify the media's density when the pattern is absent?


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