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11 Aug 2024 03:33:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: the sun's corona (64kb jpeg)  
From: stephen parkinson
Date: 16 May 2004 11:32:00
Message: <40a78970$1@news.povray.org>
Samuel Benge wrote:
> miyoken wrote:
> 
>> I like the first.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>>
>>> A cylinder connects the camera to the light_source to make the sun 
>>> form a corona.
>>>
>>
>> I do not understand this meaning well.
>>
>> What setup is the color of the sky?
> 
> 
> Miyoken,
> 
> There is a way I have been making light_sources visible in POV-Ray for 
> quite some time now. The attached image shows such a visible light_source.
> 
> This is achieved by placing one end of a cylinder to the camera's 
> location, and the other end to the light_source (roughly 100,000 units 
> away). It is given specular and phong settings to show the effects of 
> the light_source on the geometry of the tube.
> 
> To fill in the sky, I use a basic fog and background color.
> 
> I have attached the scene code to the sunset image posted here into 
> povray.binaries.scene-images.
> 
> -Samuel Benge
> 
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> 

i see this and get the impression that someting is resting in the sea
but not distorting the waves
it needs to be wider
also the grey of he sky in approx center of picture needs to blend into 
the 'cylinder'

does that make sense?


stephen


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