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2 Sep 2024 22:16:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Saturn's rings  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 28 Nov 1999 02:00:24
Message: <DtJAOMFXjpN2MuWoZYCF4OI1nzFa@4ax.com>

wrote:

>Recently I found that pov limits colour_maps to 256 entries. I was

>containing 915 and 1444 entries respectively.
>(http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/data/saturn/rings.html)
>
>I settled for 915 entries and used awk and matlab to interpolate and
>convert both transmit and colour values to pov syntax. Please feel free
>to comment on my approach, as I'm not sure if this is the easiest way.
>
>(A higher resolution image (125k) is available at
>http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~as/bilder/sat.jpg)
>
>Sigmund Kyrre Aas

Looking really good I should say. As of color_maps, you can work
around this limitation by using a pigment_map of color_mapped
pigments.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700


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