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2 Aug 2024 22:15:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Black Hole Research  
From: Tek
Date: 8 May 2007 15:02:37
Message: <4640c94d@news.povray.org>
There's no ship beyond what you can see, the image was just quickly bashed 
together. Plus I wrote a macro to do CSG greebles which will probably appear 
in some more serious image in the future!

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
news:web.4640785a7bdc3175731f01d10@news.povray.org...
> Nice images, and a good healthy discussion of astrophysics! I like the 
> later
> versions of the image better, the lighting looks more believable with the
> 'overexposed' look.
>
> It might be worth pointing out that there's probably no point in 
> discussing
> the finer points of gravitational lensing and relativistic light-shifting
> too much; anything which got that close to a real black hole or neutron
> star would likely be torn apart by tidal forces, unless it were able to
> 'hover' over it (which would require a hell of a lot of thrust).
>
> Nice spacecraft - is it just a section, or do you have a whole ship
> modelled? Looks a lot like the spine sections on my 'Discovery' model.
>
> Bill
>


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