"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> I would like to imagine that NASA has created a LARGE full 3-D globe of Mars-- a
> real-life globe-- carved from the planetary data. That would be something to
> see!

Well, I would say that is all of the data is available, and since
planet-building seems to be a long-standing interest of Povvers, that maybe such
a thing would make a nice, long-term group project.

I'm sure we could learn a lot and discover more things about what POV-Ray can &
can't do, and it would make a pretty nice PR piece.
"Hobbyists model ALL of Mars in POV-Ray, a free raytracer with a 25-year
history..."

It would be a really good test bed for view frustum and back-face culling, all
sorts of mesh-related work, and probably media for the atmosphere.

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