Am 01.08.2015 um 05:56 schrieb BayashiPascal:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Looks pretty mean.
>
> Thanks for your comment.
> Do you mean you don't like the image ? Can you explain me why ?

As Stephen already interpreted correctly, that's "mean" in the sense of 
"I hope that thing is not pointing its guns in my general direction" ;) 
- pretty much orthogonal to the question of whether I like the image in 
its entirety or not.

But now that you're asking: I think the background stars are too bright 
in relation to Neptune and the ship, and Neptune looks a bit too flat 
somehow. I know the planet is pretty featureless, but AFAIK the blue 
stuff is a deep layer of gas, not a solid surface, so at least it 
shouldn't be perfectly crisp at the rim. (Then again I've never been 
assigned to the Stealthy Owls squad, so I don't know first hand how 
Neptune looks like in reality.) Also, adding some small-scale turbulence 
to the texture might help overcome the fact that the image map seems a 
tad too low-res for that scale.

Last not least I see some color banding artifacts on Neptune's surface, 
but those should be trivial to eliminate by using the "Dither=yes" .ini 
option.

(Oh, and all of the above doesn't prevent me from liking the image. :))

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