POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Ringworld : Re: Ringworld Server Time
30 Jul 2024 02:26:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ringworld  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 12 Oct 2013 04:23:34
Message: <52590706$1@news.povray.org>

> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> Looking good imo. Land/sea distribution is much better than the
>> randomness in my macro. What K do you use for the sun colour? Around
>> 6200 or lower fairly yellow, but indeed may not look as such in space,
>> or from the surface. The glare makes it white I suppose.
>>
>> One question though: are the overall proportions of the system right?
>>   From the image I suspect that the Ringworld is much too wide compared
>> to its diameter. See attached table.
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Thanks!
>
> I'm using 6500 for the K.
>

   Then it's logical for it to be white, as the default Lightsys 
whitepoint is exactly 6500K, IIRC. Try changing the whitepoint to 7500K 
or so, and you should get it more yelowish.

--
Jaime


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