POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : image : Re: image Server Time
2 Aug 2024 06:13:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: image  
From: Jan Dvorak
Date: 4 Nov 2007 14:56:40
Message: <472e23f8@news.povray.org>
alphaQuad napsal(a):
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>> dont think I got the hang of it yet
> 
> 
> here's a curiosity: what can POV do?
> 
> what about a half moon in the middle of the day?
> 
> night time sky is behind the moon and black. you might be able to
> air brush the map to black. yuck
> 
> day time sky would eliminate that possibility being actually in back of moon.
> airbrushing to a gradient sky would be difficult at best.
> 
> so can POV do either suggestion without touching the map.
> 
> half moon night
> or half moon day
> 
> day time moon would darken at half point then go transparent.
> 
three layers:
moon (prerendered)
occlusion (probably grouped with the moon)
sky (transparent)

or:
moon (sphere)
an actual atmosphere (not as slow as you might think)

the first variant is probably easier to do.


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