Skip Talbot <sta### [at] uiucedu> wrote in message
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> Remember that post I made awhile ago (months) about the isosurface
speckling
> with media?  My clouds have come a ways.  They're small cumulus.  I used a
> media filled isosurface with multiple pigment functions.  To get the flat
> bottoms I stole the gumdrop out of the torus gumdrop function and blobbed
an
> ellipsoid on top of that.  The atmosphere is also media but the sky itself
> is a simple sky_sphere.  I have found that if you make the media container
> object large enough it won't return a color back after a certain distance.
> This is great for creating atmospheric effects but still having control of
> the background without media influence.
>
> The clouds are going to be used for a scene featuring a large six-engine
> German bomber (which I've posted to the groups before).  An author in
> Scotland is writing a book on long range German bombers and he wants to
use
> one of my renderings for the cover.  Score for me and for Pov-Ray!
>
> 10 hour render on a 1.8GHz P4  ::yipes::  I'll post the final pic that's
> going on the cover when its done.
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> Skip
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Wow!
 the most realistic clouds I can ever remember seeing done with pov!

Gary

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