"Jon S. Berndt" wrote:
> 
> Matt Giwer wrote:
> >
> >         Thank you good sir, a thousand thank yous. May Allah bless you. That is
> > exactly the image I have been looking for, for a year now.
> 
> You are most welcome. It seemed like the kind of picture somebody surely must be
> able to use!
> 
> >         And since you post the code. I plan a daylight sphere and a night
> > sphere trivially displaced so that half is dark and half is light. And
> > that being animation material.
> 
> I considered this, too, and, given the right daytime earth image, I might
> eventually try it, as well. Post your results when you get something. I'd like
> to see it.
> 
> I was trying to think of how it could be most realistically done. Would a
> layered texture work? I don't know.

	When I get to it, just a plain image map. Daylight on one, night on the
other. If I just shift them 0.00001 or so along an imaginary line
connecting noon with midnight and one is mathematically "above" the
other. 

> There does exist a daylight version of the nighttime pic I posted the URL for.
> If I can find it I'll post the URL for that, as well.

	I'd love to have the original of that one posted as an image on a
related website. 

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