POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Ringworld : Re: Ringworld Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:29:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ringworld  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 14 Oct 2013 06:51:05
Message: <525bcc99$1@news.povray.org>
On 14-10-2013 10:52, posfan12 wrote:
> Here's a render with the faded "atmosphere" pigment removed and the
> water returned to its original non-reflective texture.
>
> It looks too cartoon-ey and fake.
>

The first one may be more realistic, this one looks more believable 
taking artistic licence into account. This is more or less how Larry 
Niven describes the first views of the Ringworld.

However, I think that the oceans are not only concentrated in the middle 
of the ring. And there are some very large ones too.

Thomas


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