Abe wrote in message <398### [at] taconicnet>...
>I'm sure someone has already tried this, but I haven't seen it yet, so
>I'm bringing it here.
>
>The cloud technique is fairly straight forward; a black hole warp is
>used to displace shaded areas away from the light source. The pigment is
>applied to a curved cloud plane and lit by ambient light. Although I was
>using MegaPOV, the method does not depend on it.
>
>The calculation sky colors based on sun elevation is sort of am
>empirical hack. Not very straight forward, it still needs alot of work.
>
>Anyway, the thing to look at is the lighting of the clouds in relation
>to the sun.
>
>Abe


Very nice. I like the first two the most. What pattern are you using for the
cloud layer? bozo?

Gail
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