> Amazing!
> 
> First of all it looks really good (although not very comforting - little
> time to run).
> 
> I recently read a SF novel (by Larry Niven I believe) which describes
> exactly this type of thing, only then it's not Earth that burns up but
> Pluto. It was fun to read because written somewhere in the sixties and
> it describes how a spacevessel tries to land on Pluto unaware of the
> fact that the surface consists of frozen oxygen and hydrogen (or
> something like that). In the description is something about a ring of
> fire spreading over the planet and folding around it. 
> Somehow that appealed to me and so does this animation. Did you already
> post the source or if you won't will you be rendering a larger (screen &
> time) version?

Excuse the delayed follow-up (only a mere three and a half months :) but 
the Larry Niven book that was mentioned is 'World Of Ptavvs', part of his 
Known Space series of books, written in 1966, ISBN 0 7088 8013 4

(Guess who'd been reading through his Niven books again and had the book 
next to his computer? :)

Oh, and the reason for the delay is that I'm slowly working my way 
backwards through this particular NG.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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