On 10-11-2012 19:17, Stephen wrote:
> On 09/11/2012 8:50 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> The clouds are better than in the original. However, I miss the haze of
>> the original which gave a nice atmospheric distance to the scene. Here,
>> it would diffuse a bit the sharp edge of the gibbous Earth.
>>
>
> Actually I like sharp images, but you do have a point.

Fair enough; You are the boss.

>
>> I know that you use Bishop3D, would it be possible to use there Bill
>> Pragnell's Moon technique to make an even better Earth view?
>
> Yes I could as I can include code to be rendered but I find that that
> technique always gives me a washed out image and clouds that don't look
> right.

Well, depends. Working with light_groups you could probably reach 
identical results for the foreground.

>> A technique I used in "First Contact" back in 2008 too:
>>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C47f79242%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=331022&toff=800&mtop=271206
>
> I remember the post and it is an excellent image.

Hmm. Seeing it again: it might need a serious overhaul. I shall do that 
one day probably... ;-)

> Anyway I have corrected a few faults in the bridge and here is the
> latest rendering.

Well, in any case, the journey to Skye has been made much smoother now 
;-) They can expect a lot of visitors from abroad.

Thomas

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