On 2-12-2014 23:39, eticre wrote:
> hallo everybody
> I am absolutely newbie with povray, this is what I have realized in the last
> 4billions years of life.
>
> I have post in scene-file the code
>
>
>
Excellent work! I can hardly name you a newbie, even less an /absolute/ 
newbie. Your textures are very well made.

Interestingly, I have been working for some time now (less than 4 
billion years) on exactly the same thing but with some differences. My 
latitudinal approach is similar to yours; however, I am using 
height_fields for the topography and the texture is thus also altitude 
dependent. I attach an example of the state of the art.
For the background I have used Chris Colefax's galaxy macros, which are 
in need of some upgrade ;-) 
http://reocities.com/SiliconValley/lakes/1434/galaxy.html

For the height_fields I use a little application called PlanetGenesis 
http://planetgenesis.sourceforge.net/ and the clouds come from the Nasa 
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=1484&p=3

Thomas

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