> Those mini clouds are really incredible. I'm guessing they're media.
>

And KAPANG! You're wrong! There are 51 discs in the image,
and one of them is used for the heightfield... ;)

> This will be a cool still, but an animation would be amazing! What would be
> really cool is if the land mass moved as if the ball were just a window
> looking into one static point on a spinning globe.
>

Tracing for the image didn't take too long, but the shadows of the clouds
don't look too good. Using arealights takes care of that, but also of the
tracing time (a test took 12 hours on 1.4 GHZ!)

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Tim Nikias
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html

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