On 16-8-2018 13:55, Stephen wrote:
> On 16/08/2018 12:08, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 16-8-2018 12:53, Stephen wrote:
>>> I wish we had made a "Ringworld from the surface" round in TC-RTC. 
>>> But I suppose that it would have been too hard. I certainly found the 
>>> scales very difficult to work with.
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>> The only way I discovered was to decouple the Ringworld proper and the 
>> scene at the surface.
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> I know but that leaves a cheat-y feeling.

Yes, but it is unavoidable as you have to deal with extremely large 
objects (the Ring) together with a detailed scene around the camera. The 
two just don't fit together in the same physical model where POV-Ray is 
concerned without serious artefacts. And it is hardly necessary: the 
Ringworld experience for an observer would be something like watching 
the Moon in our sky, disconnected from the immediate world he/she lives in.

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http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C4c24a930%241%40news.povray.org%3E/

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> I remember it. :)
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Still one of my references where Ringworld-building is concerned.


-- 
Thomas

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