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20 May 2024 12:56:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ringworld (continued)  
From: Stephen
Date: 9 Aug 2018 07:11:56
Message: <5b6c217c$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/08/2018 12:08, Thomas de Groot wrote:

>>
> 
> I often need to take stock again and again of the gigantic distances and 
> sizes we are dealing with in a planetary system. It is something quite 
> difficult to grasp, and rendering things like the Ringworld makes us 
> forget them, reducing them to simple rings to be taken into our hands ;-)
> 

Translating from the mind's eye to reality is always a problem with 
planetary scales.

I wonder if it is possible to use a log rather than a linear scale along 
the axis.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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