POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Sunrise : Re: Sunrise Take 2 Server Time
13 Aug 2024 03:17:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sunrise Take 2  
From: JWV
Date: 26 Jun 2003 14:04:02
Message: <3efb3592@news.povray.org>
sun looks hotter in this image instead of a bit dull in the previous image.
I like this one better.

JWV


"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3efb0a78@news.povray.org...
> The sun isn't shaded. Its white in the center, gets a
> red teint near the edge, and the dissolves into a soft
> glow, but perhaps its too much. How about this?
>
>
> --
> Tim Nikias v2.0
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
>
> >
> > I'm sorry, but I find this version is much worse than the previous, for
> > two reasons:
> >
> > 1. The lights on the dark side of the earth are too bright, it makes the
> > image less credible.
> > 2. The sun does not look like a sun. Your sun looks cold, like it was
> > made of wax, or plastic, while it should look really hot and be made of
> > star plasma (or whatever). And suns never, ever have a shaded surface,
> > they appear flat because of self-illumination.
> >
>
>
>


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