> 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
>
> P.S. The thing in the water on the lower right - don't ask me what it
> is, I don't know. It just sort of showed up...thought it might be a
> whale or something.

Very very nice result indeed!
And what a cool whale! =)

/R

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