POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Planet : Re: Planet Server Time
17 Aug 2024 00:20:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Planet  
From: Bryan Valencia
Date: 3 Dec 2001 18:16:10
Message: <3C0C0800.13FF4CFD@209software.com>
Thanks for all the responses.

As to the oddness of the gas giant - I want this one to look really alien, so I
abandoned the bands and vortices look.  I wouldn't mind a way to make the surface look
"hazier" though.

Coridon Henshaw wrote:

> Bryan Valencia <bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote in news:3C06C301.D53974C@
> 209software.com:
>
> > Supposedly a gas giant with it's moons.
>
> You might want to use some NASA pics for reference if you're trying to
> create a realistic scene.  What you've got now looks toonish because of the
> number of moons, the density of the starfield, and the high level of
> ambient light.
>
> Here's a few examples of what planets look like in real photos:
>
> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/near_earth_moon.jpg
> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/gal_earth_moon.jpg
> http://www.solarviews.com/r/nep/neptri.gif
> http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/solar/b/nep/trinep3.jpg


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