POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : a planet : Re: a planet Server Time
30 Jul 2024 16:13:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: a planet  
From: Larry Fontaine
Date: 4 Sep 1999 21:34:44
Message: <37D1C70F.E367E4FD@isd.net>
Mark Wagner wrote:

> Cliff Bowman wrote in message <37bc1259.57581187@news.povray.org>...
> >On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:15:04 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>PoD wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ken wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Chris Huff wrote:
> >>> > >
> >>> > > >You will not actually see any gradation of a color_map used on a
> >>> > > sphere however unless it is CSG'd with another object, ie cut in
> half
> >>> > > with a plane.<
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Yes, and then you will only see it if the plane has the same
> texture.
> >>> >
> >>> > ...or your sphere is transparent.
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Ken Tyler
> >>> >
> >>> > See my 700+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
> >>> > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
> >>>
> >>> ...or the texture on the sphere has turbulence.
> >>> That's the way I do planets - sphere, onion, turbulence.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, PoD.
> >>
> >>... or the texture is translated to some point from the origin or...
> >>
> >the texture is applied *after* the CSG, or...
> >
> you give up on POVRay and do the picture using MS Paint or...
> :-)
> Mark

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