POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Making Planets : Re: Making Planets Server Time
31 Jul 2024 06:17:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Making Planets  
From: Kirk Andrews
Date: 9 Mar 2010 17:15:33
Message: <4b96c885$1@news.povray.org>
TC wrote:
> "Kirk Andrews" <kir### [at] tektonartcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:4b96ae73@news.povray.org...
>> Thanks for the nice comments.  Here's another, larger render.  This one
>> I rendered with beta 35, and the media seems to have rendered quite
>> substantially different.  I had to do some post-processing to make up
>> for it.
> 
> The dark side of the planet in this render features a few lights. Are these 
> city-lights (intentionally placed) or stars from the background shining 
> through or artifacts (from beta)?
> 
> 
> 
Ah yes, I forgot to mention that.  The render did show some artifacts on 
the landmasses on the dark side of the planet.  However, their placement 
seemed realistic enough to serve as city-lights, so I boosted their 
brightness and blurred them slightly in post-processing.


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