On 11/06/2010 8:32 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "Stephen"<mca### [at] aolDOTcom>  schreef in bericht
> news:4c10a076@news.povray.org...
>>
>> If Mike does that then it may be realistic but it will be boring to look
>> at. IMO realistic space scenes show one feature while hiding most others
>> due to differences in scale. Do you remember the posts from a few years

>> Having said that the ground could be s bit further away ;-)
>>
>
> Yes indeed. Bill, and myself, did some exploration that way back then; and
> there was some scenes based on Arthur Clarke's Rama iirc, some years ago
> too. It is not easy, fairly impossible, to show all, so a shrewd choice of
> viewpoint and scene cutout to suggest - more than to show - the vast
> dimensions of such artificial structures is needed.
>

I think that, that is the reason I gave up realistic modelling of scenes 




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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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