Eerie...like a slowly cooling mass of molten iron-containing rock being 
held in shape by strong gravity and magnetic fields. Looks like it's 
been held in this shape, with those odd floating chunks, for a couple 
millennia.

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Chris Huff wrote:
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> Eerie...like a slowly cooling mass of molten iron-containing rock being
> held in shape by strong gravity and magnetic fields. Looks like it's
> been held in this shape, with those odd floating chunks, for a couple
> millennia.

Your imagination is kind of technical, isn't it ?

But I agree with you - That's the most plausible
explanation for the creation of this stony stuff.

;)


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In article <3A0A09A7.855A6437@online.no>, Tor Olav Kristensen 
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> Your imagination is kind of technical, isn't it ?

I guess you're right... :-)


> But I agree with you - That's the most plausible
> explanation for the creation of this stony stuff.

And I didn't even go into the possibility of an asteroid/small moon 
collision in orbit around a gas giant...

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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> I have now posted the code to povray.text.scene-files:
> 
> news://news.povray.org/3A08883F.ECDFB741%40online.no
> 
> If your idea results in something nice or interesting,
> I would be glad to see the result.
> 
	If you're interrested, the results are here:
http://www.enst.fr/~jberger/tmp

	(I'm not posting them since they're not *that* different form yours).

	I think the best would be something in between those two with some
reflection thrown in for good measure (ouch the render time though...)


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> 
> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> >...
> > If your idea results in something nice or interesting,
> > I would be glad to see the result.
> >
>         If you're interrested, the results are here:
> http://www.enst.fr/~jberger/tmp



Interesting to see the scene with these glossy 
textures. What are the texture settings ?

And what were the rendering times ?


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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
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> 
> Interesting to see the scene with these glossy
> textures. What are the texture settings ?
> 
	Mostly, I replaced the wrinkles with some higher-frequency noise3d and
added phong on one and specular on the other. I don't have the settings
at hand right now, I'll post them tomorrow...

> And what were the rendering times ?
> 
	I don't remember and they wouldn't be significant anyway since I was
working simultaneously on this, my next irtc entry and my cloth
simulator (no, I don't have a cray, just a 333MHz PII...)


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> 
>         Mostly, I replaced the wrinkles with some higher-frequency noise3d and
> added phong on one and specular on the other. I don't have the settings
> at hand right now, I'll post them tomorrow...
> 
	Here are the settings:
* for the bumps I replaced the "wrinkles" term in the isosurface with:
-0.01*(1-2*noise3d (10*x, 10*y, 10*z))

* for the shine: phong or specular 0.5, default phong_size and roughness


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