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20 May 2024 07:09:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Triplanar Mapping - to: Bald Eagle, Sam, and Kenneth  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 24 Jan 2024 02:09:31
Message: <65b0b7ab$1@news.povray.org>
Op 23/01/2024 om 16:48 schreef Kenneth:
> "Samuel B." <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>
>> There's a sweet spot I want to hit, something around the scale one might see
>> depicted in a moon landing photo.
>>
>> I managed to get the scale closer to what I want (see attached image), but it's
>> still a bit too close up.
>>
> Both of your images look really great, like the surface of asteroids--from the
> photos that have been returned from spacecraft that have actually made landings.
> Your result looks like an accumulation of loosely-held debris that has been
> pulverized by micro-meteoroids over eons of time. Nice!
> 
Yes, that was also my impression indeed.

> I still have a soft spot for those quaint old sci-fi movie depictions of
> sharp-edged craggy mountains and craters on outer-space planets...but alas, that
> appearance has been proven false.
> 
Space is infinite, so maybe.... ;-)

-- 
Thomas


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