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From: Jim Charter
Date: 19 Oct 2008 12:44:45
Message: <48fb63fd$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:06:07 +0200, "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hmm... Difficult to say... I like the concept in itself. It has a rather 
>>strong yin-yang content. What I find disturbing though, are the sharp 
>>boundaries between states (night/day; black/white). In a boudhistic sense 
>>(not that I know much about boudhism) I would expect smoother transitions 
>>and a sense of revolution (the wheel) more pronounced...
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks Thomas,
> 	I think that too, that there should be a merge between the day and night
> sky but how to reflect that in the ground? I think that I will try a repeating
> image map texture on the plane. With the image map split into night/day/night. 
You might try a 'splicing' border with fragments of the images 
interleaved to produce the transition.

Or...rather than a graded transition, just some sort of framing.  I 
think the blunt edges abutted is part of the problem.


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