POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Sunrise : Re: Sunrise Server Time
12 Aug 2024 21:17:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sunrise  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 24 Jun 2003 22:01:12
Message: <3EF901D6.6000209@videotron.ca>
Program ended abnormally on 6/24/03 7:07 PM, Due to a catastrophic Ross
Litscher error:
> Tim Nikias v2.0 <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
> news:3ef8da2e@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Well, as is no doubtedly obvious, this scene depicts
>>some sort of sunrise (with a nice camera-banking and
>>zoom-out). Nothing that special. Just wanted to share. :-)
>>

Very nice.  I think the atmosphere is a bit too thick, but never having been in 
space, I could be wrong.


> 
> thats neat city lighting. does earth really look lit up like that on the
> dark side? 

Yes.  I'm pretty sure he used this picture for an image map:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html

-- 
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/*        @        */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/*   videotron.ca  */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }


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