I think the person who said "AWESOME ROLEX" was the most accurate this
time. Nicely done, tho. You fooled (almost) everybody!

Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> Equiprawn wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> >
> > <ego_boosting_comment> Cool image! </ego_boosting_comment>
> >
> > Now some observations :) Firstly, thought it is hard to tell with the water,
> > there doesn't seem to be any shadows cast, either on the water surface or on
> > other clouds. Also, judging from the ship the lighting is quite low, and
> > almost directly to the left of the ship - yet teh lighting on the clouds
> > seems to be quite high and from a source somewhere behind the camera. So I
> > am guessing that the clouds aren't a real-time lit object. I don't want to
> > hur any feeling here, but ... imagemap?
> 
> Ding ding! We have a winner!
> 
> I guess this shows that, on occasion, imagemaps aren't the terrible solution
> they're made out to be.
> 
> I am planning, however, to create some POV code to generate semi-realistic
> clouds procedurally. In my experimentation, I have made some progress, and I
> think it should be do-able.
> 
> In the mean time, with time running out before the IRTC entry is due, I found a
> very reasolable stop-gap solution, as all the positive comments attest to.
> 
> Simon

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