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30 Jul 2024 16:25:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: a planet  
From: Edward C 
Date: 22 Aug 1999 02:51:04
Message: <37bf9dd8@news.povray.org>
Mark Wagner wrote in message <37bcfbb7@news.povray.org>...
>
>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
>
... you scale the sphere unevenly before you apply the texture or...


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