Hi.

I'm new to POV - I've been playing with it for a couple of month now.

Last week I tryed to render a scene with a distant planet, so I
created a sphere, scaled and translated it to a far distance.

As long as the planet is on the horizon, no problems. But as soon as I
want to raise the planet over the horizon line, it gets distorted. I
do not understand why. Can someone explain what I do wrong ?

Thanks.

Jester.

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// Code starts here - this was rendered at a resolution of 720x576

#include "colors.inc"

camera {
	location <0, 6, 0>
	look_at   <0, 0, 100>
	right x*720/576
	up y
}

background { color rgb <0.2, 0.2, 0.3> }

light_source {
	<0, 100, -100>, White
}

object {
  sphere {
  	0, 1
  	texture {
  		pigment { Red }
  	}
  }
  scale 1000
  translate 10000*z
  rotate <-14, 25, 0>
  // If this is <0, 25, 0> then the sphere is not distorted
}

plane {
	y, -1
	texture {
		pigment {
			checker color Red color Green
		}
		scale 10
	}
}

// Code ends here

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