POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Earth at Dusk : Re: Earth at Dusk Server Time
19 Aug 2024 12:22:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Earth at Dusk  
From: Josh English
Date: 4 Dec 2000 12:19:53
Message: <3A2BD234.595FA92A@spiritone.com>
Yep. I was just roughing in my method of how I would do it. Even this creates a bit
of darker shadow along the terminus. I know it needs a lot of work.

Josh

"Bob H." wrote:

> You might have to go with a sine_wave for the radial pattern instead or at
> least blend at the start and end of the map as well as the middle.  Anyway, the
> terminator (shadow line) region is awfully sharp in that.
> I forget exactly how I did it but it also had a gradient masking texture for
> the dark side so the daylight didn't have lights showing.  Wasn't a clean
> attempt but it worked enough.
>
> Bob

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