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  Re: Media atmosphere for planet - why green sky?  
From: Alain
Date: 28 Mar 2010 18:05:17
Message: <4bafd29d@news.povray.org>

> High!
>
> This weekend, I added a media atmosphere around my planet Ghurghusht...
> after some tinkering, I found out that generally, it works using
> scattering media only. But I wonder why the sky has such a strange color
> close to the horizon... and as I took a shot at the zenith, it turned
> out darker and duller than expected!
>
> Here is the definition of the atmosphere:
>
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar

As you go deeper in the media, there is less blue. The blue gets 
shadowed out.

When you look up, the media depth becomes small and insufisent to be seen.
Try scattering{2...} or {3...}


Alain


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