"Matt Giwer" <jul### [at] ijnet> wrote in message news:3A2D1770.61C24939@ij.net...
> Spock wrote:
> >
> > I notice a tendency for folks to model both the earth and the terminator
> > line as vertical.  While it is an accurate representation twice a year
> > (spring and fall equinox?) I think it might be more interesting to look at
> > the earth in mid-summer.  Try tipping the earth's main axis by 23 degrees
or
> > so (hope I got that angle right) to illustrate things like why the sun
> > doesn't set above the arctic circle in the summer.  Just a thought.
>
> Well taken.

It would have been :-) were it not for this being the result of aligning (no
pun intended) the two image maps and two gradient masking textures.  I realize
you can't see Europe much at all because of this vantage point.  Luckily there
isn't anything near the South Pole so a view from over the Tropic of Cancer
demarcation line at 23.5 degrees north of the equator would be better.

Bob H.

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