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3 Oct 2024 09:26:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sunset w/ atmospherics (~40 Kb)  
From: Remco de Korte
Date: 30 Jan 2000 08:16:13
Message: <389438F4.682B83F2@xs4all.nl>
Abe wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> For those interested in this sort of thing...this is the result of
> another sunset exercise in MegaPOV (actually, only the HF texture
> really
> depends on the patch). The object was to simulate distorting the
> effects
> of atmospheric refraction on the sun disc near the horizon.
> 
> Post processing note: Probably because of the low viewing angle (and I
> don't know what else) there were some white speckles (cracks?) in the
> HF. These were removed.
> 
> - Abe
> 
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

Very much like those holiday postcards.
It misses something...
Ah! Text! 
"Greetings from... POV"?
"My friends just downloaded POVray and all they traced me was this lousy
postcard"?

(not meaning I think this is a lousy image! Au contraire!)

I like the distorted effect, the colour and glow seem allright too.

Remco


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