POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : The wait : Re: The wait Server Time
2 Aug 2024 04:22:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The wait  
From: Chris B
Date: 16 Feb 2008 13:27:55
Message: <47b72b2b@news.povray.org>
"stm31415" <stm### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:web.47b725e8db51ba7e296f4ef10@news.povray.org...
> Brilliant idea.
>
> I'd move the transition-point between the red taillights and white 
> headlights to
> the far end of the figure-eight. While it's a cool demonstration of the
> one-sidedness of a mobius strip,

I see no strips.

> it ruins the illusion of driving round and
> round forever --- when you reach that spot, you have to turn around *and* 
> drive
> in reverse!
>

Do you mean the two points on the figure of 8 where the observer ceases to 
see the headlights from a stream of traffic heading towards the camera and 
starts to see the taillights of that stream of cars as they head away from 
the camera?

Regards,
Chris B.


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