Lawrence Winstead wrote:
> Wow, that's beautiful! What's your secret for the sky, including the sun and
> clouds? They just take my breath away...
> -Law
sky_sphere
{
pigment { gradient y
pigment_map { [ 0 Turquoise*3/4 ]
[ .5 Black/2 ]
[ 1 Black/2 ] }}
pigment { gradient y
pigment_map { [ 0 Gold*3/4 filter .25 ]
[ .2 RichBlue/2 filter .6 ]
[ 1 Blue/3 filter .75 ] } }
}
The clouds were produced by a macro I derived from one I found on the newsgroups
here.
Unfurtunately I cannot refind it and cannot remember the author to give credit.
It calls a macro, AddCloud
repeatedly which produces media within a box container combining a spherical and
boxed density. I added emission and absorption values which is how I got the
dramatic illumination of the distance clouds.
The sun combines a glow and a disc
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