In article <403### [at] hotmailcom>, evi### [at] hotmailcom 
says...
> Bjorn Jonsson wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone done a realistic-looking semi-transparent rocket exhaust
> > plume (no bright fire and no smoke) and if so, how ? I'm thinking of
> > something vaguely similar to these (except it will be from a
> > spacecraft in space and not on the ground):
> 
> I have one in my April 03 IRTC entry:
> 
>   http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/anims/2003-04-15/advent.mpg
> 
> You may not like the color, but the technique should be adaptable to
> your purposes.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 

This is somewhat similar to what I'm trying to do and could definitely 
be modified into something I'd be happy with. The only problem is that I 
found no source code or description of how this was done ;-).

FWIW what I'm planning to do is to add the exhaust plume to this:

http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/css_53187,055560_no_plume.jpg

This will show NASA's Cassini spacecraft firing its retrorocket to enter 
orbit around Saturn.

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