POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Cloudscapes : Re: Cloudscapes Server Time
15 May 2024 07:40:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cloudscapes  
From: Bruno Cabasson
Date: 3 Feb 2016 09:35:04
Message: <web.56b20fe8158ef0367451ecd10@news.povray.org>
"Bruno Cabasson" <bru### [at] cabassoncom> wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > On 2/3/2016 8:26 AM, Bruno Cabasson wrote:
> > > Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> > >> On 3-2-2016 13:32, Bruno Cabasson wrote:
> > >>> I start a new thread after the "subsurface experiment", as people seem to be
> > >>> curious about my cloudscapes images.
> > >>>
> > >>> Here is yet another one.
> > >>>
> > >>> PS : I recall that I lost the code after a system crash. Shame on me. But I
> > >>> still know the guidelines that lead to those results. I experimented quite a
lot
> > >>> for TerraPOV.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Image missing?
> > >>
> > >> I still have your (unfinished) TerraPOV documentation on my PC. It may
> > >> be that it would need some update for v3.7?
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Thomas
> > >
> > > Yes, image missing. It seems I have problems today sending images. Here it is.
> > >
> >
> > How long did the image take to render? What kind of CPU do you have?
> >
> > Those clouds are impressive!
> >
> > Mike
>
> Well. It is years ago. I had a single-core Athlon 3000 @ 2Ghz.... So far I can
> remember, those cloudscapes took about 1 hour at that resolution. But I cannot
> be sure. So many sleepless nights ! Today, it would be another story.

I must confess that an appropriate built-in density function for clouds would be
superkalifragilisticexpialedociously welcome.


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