POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Saturn - the unlit side of the rings : Re: Saturn - the unlit side of the rings Server Time
31 Jul 2024 10:17:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Saturn - the unlit side of the rings  
From: clipka
Date: 10 Nov 2009 19:52:10
Message: <4afa0aba$1@news.povray.org>

> High!
> 
> clipka wrote:
> 
>> As another option, with non-zero thickness media would be the most 
>> realistic way to go anyway.
> 
> Yes, I also thought about using media... but then, wouldn't it render 
> dead slow?

I guess that'll depend a lot on the settings. Only light rays from a 
very shallow angle will experience any significant anisotropy while 
traversing the ring system, so presumably you can get away with very few 
samples.

> P.S. A funny situation - talking in the lingua franca of the Internet to 
> a Colognian countryman living a mere 10 kilometres (6 miles) from here...



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