Machiavelli wrote:
> "Wolfgang Wieser" <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
> news:3f20353c@news.povray.org...
>> As explained in the text above the images, the height (and the
>> atmosphere) is scaled by a factor of 30.
> 
> Only 30?  Looks something more like 10,000 to me.  They say the earth, if
> shrunken down, would be more smooth than any common man-made sphere.
> 
Look: The atmosphere is 20km, scaled by factor 30 yields to 600km. 
Earth has a radius of 6368km (don't mind the last digit) which is 
about 1/10th of the atmosphere. Looking at the image that seems 
plausible...

> I agree, and you do have artistic license for scaling, including your
> extremely thick atmosphere.
> 
Ok, then I'll use my "license" :)

Wolfgang

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