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30 Jul 2024 16:17:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A Sky_Sphere is infinte  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 3 Sep 1999 09:45:36
Message: <37cfd100@news.povray.org>
On 3 Sep 1999 07:26:01 -0400, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>  I have a question for the hardcore povrayers (I can only guess the correct
>answer, but I'm not sure about it):
>
>  The sky sphere is a sphere of radius 1 around the camera, as I described
>in the previous article.

Not true.  The sky sphere is a bit of code that takes a ray that didn't 
hit anything else and colors it based on its direction, according to the
documentation.  That fact invalidates the rest of your question. :)


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