Nice animation, but it's hardly a new concept - I've been using this in
my landscapes for about 3 years now (see my posts in p.t.s-f 'Hazy Days
...' 17th July 1998 and 'Media Clouds' 29th September 1998)

I did like your cloud image - good detail.

Bye for now,
	Mike Andrews.

Tek wrote:
> 
> The only thing changing in the scene for this animation is the position of the
> light & it's corresponding glow object. i.e. the colour of the
> lightsource(white) and atmospheric media(blue) never change. Cool, huh?
> 
> The way it works is that when the sun's low in the sky it shines through more of
> the blue air, which scatters the blue components of the light so producing the
> reds and yellows you see. I was amazed when I saw that megapov can model this
> effect! It's not a perfect simulation of a sunrise, but it's pretty close :)
> 
> BTW, this is a development of the cloud image posted to p.b.i, but to get the
> render times down I've replaced the cloud with a sphere. If any of you own a
> really powerful PC and you want to try rendering this with the cloud, mail me,
> it would be much appreciated. My PIII 550 would take days to do that.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> 
>                   Name: SUNRISE.MPG
>    SUNRISE.MPG    Type: Atiplay File (video/mpeg)
>               Encoding: x-uuencode

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