"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:web.45813fec67574c2c731f01d10@news.povray.org...
>> Well, both views are correct, I think. RL often doesn't live up to
>> imagination when you remember the revelation of the first photographs of
>> Jupiter's moons for instance, or the first really close-up photographs of
>> Mars.....

I typed the contrary of what I wanted to say here, but you certainly 
understood! I wanted to say: 'Imagination often doesn't live up to RL'

> I think cheating's OK in this sort of case. If the end result is
> indistinguishable from the rigorous version, what the hell. Planets in
> skies etc look like they're painted on the inside of a dome anyway. (hmm,
> sounds familiar...)

Yes, I agree, and in fact we do that all/most of the times... I was curious 
however to try this and to get proportions right.

> With the Ringworld, the issue was that the structure itself was visible at
> all distances, and so couldn't be faked realistically. And, remember what 
> I
> did to give it an atmosphere... :)

Yes, the problem is a bit different, but basically the scale issue is 
apparent here too. And yes, that atmosphere has been used again here for 
Triton. I shall tweak it more of course.

Thomas

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