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  Re: Earth-like planet texture  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 11 Jul 2008 07:51:03
Message: <48774927$1@news.povray.org>
"SharkD" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.4875c35533ed6cd5b319b3150@news.povray.org...
>I aim to incorporate this into my Solar System include. The idea is that 
>the
> amount of snowfall and sea level is changes with the planet's incidence 
> with
> respect to the system sun. I trawled the web for some solar functions and 
> was
> having difficulty implementing them when I last was working on the 
> project.

It looks very promising indeed. Note that sea-level is not influenced by the 
planet's incidence, except maybe with planets having seas the size of ponds 
:-)
But vegetation most certainly is of course.

Thomas


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