> On 1-8-2013 20:22, Alain wrote:

>>>
>>> Here a picture of a space ship - (this is a Worth In Pieces) - model of
>>> spaceship under wings3D and render with PovRay. Some works on lasers,
>>> textures...
>>>
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>> Nice model.
>>
>> Those "lasers" are more like ion pulses.
>
> he is firing lasers not laser beams
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Laser ARE beams. Laser beam is a pleonasm.
Laser can be pulsed, it only mean that the beam is not continous.
Next, in space, a laser would be invisible unless it have an astronomic 
power level, I mean, in the multi peta-watt range...

Given the speed of light, even short, high frequency, laser pulses 
should be *MUCH* longer and you should only be able to see one, maybe 
two at most, unless your scene covers 10000 Km or more. Then, your ships 
would be so small and far away from each other that you won't be able to 
apreciate them.

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