It looks like the Earth is rolling instead of rotating.. very strange effect.

Josh

GrimDude wrote:

>  The camera is in ecliptic orbit of the Earth here. If you look real close
> you might see the Moon move through the camera view. The moon is actually
> orbiting too, but at the proper rate of one lunar month (and not all of that
> is modelled). This is  a conceptual example of an animation I first saw on
> Compuserve years ago. The original artist's name is lost to me (sorry). This
> 128-frame animation took just over 10 minutes to render.
>   The Earth appears to wobble, because it is tilted toward the Sun (northern
> hemisphere's summer) and the camera is coplanar with the orbital path about
> the Sun.
>
> Grim
>
>                    Name: Ecliptic.mpg
>    Ecliptic.mpg    Type: WMPLAYER File (video/mpg)
>                Encoding: x-uuencode

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