POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Cumulus Humilis : Re: Cumulus Humilis Server Time
5 Jul 2025 02:12:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cumulus Humilis  
From: Chris Colefax
Date: 26 Sep 2000 19:03:51
Message: <39d12b57@news.povray.org>
Bob Hughes <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:
> Well this certainly fits as a cumulus type. "humilis" is something I've
> never heard of, and if that were just a added word please forgive my
> ignorance  :-|

Humilis = humble (in Latin, of course!), referring to the low height of the
clouds compared to the length of their bases.  Currently the macro lets you
specify both this height and the flatness of the base compared to the top of
the cloud, so all sorts of shapes and sizes are possible.


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