Cliff Bowman wrote in message <37bc1259.57581187@news.povray.org>...
>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:15:04 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>PoD wrote:
>>>
>>> Ken wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Chris Huff wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > >You will not actually see any gradation of a color_map used on a
>>> > > sphere however unless it is CSG'd with another object, ie cut in
half
>>> > > with a plane.<
>>> > >
>>> > > Yes, and then you will only see it if the plane has the same
texture.
>>> >
>>> > ...or your sphere is transparent.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Ken Tyler
>>> >
>>> > See my 700+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
>>> > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
>>>
>>> ...or the texture on the sphere has turbulence.
>>> That's the way I do planets - sphere, onion, turbulence.
>>>
>>> Cheers, PoD.
>>
>>... or the texture is translated to some point from the origin or...
>>
>the texture is applied *after* the CSG, or...
>
you give up on POVRay and do the picture using MS Paint or...
:-)
Mark

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