> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
>> However, that might then interfere with the bridge crossing the
>> atmospheric
>> sphere; which you could then solve by making the bridge diminish to a
>> point before that crossing; which would however hide more the Skye
>> terminus... ;-)
>> 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.
>
> There was so much wrong with this scene. For one reason or another I
> started with a scene that did not have any global settings and when I
> added them I was so surprised at the difference that using Perlin
> instead of PovRay 3.1 as a noise generator caused it took me ages to
> find the cause of the discrepancy.
> Anyway I have corrected a few faults in the bridge and here is the
> latest rendering.
>
>
>

Nice indeed.
Just my own little gripe...
It loks like the bridge's piles are to short, giving the impression that 
the whole bridge is actualy floating on the water instead of resting on 
the sea bed.
Having some concreete blocks under the legs could be good. Given the 
distance they are at, using a simple gray or brownish gray boxes should 
be enough. It would even be OK if you stopped having them about mid-way 
to the clouds.


Alain

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