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From: Lutz-Peter Hooge
Date: 10 Sep 2001 19:57:12
Message: <MPG.160771f2a3c11d98989687@news.povray.org>
In article <3b9d4831$1@news.povray.org>, tla### [at] homecom says...

> I love that glowing effect you have right at the horizon. This scene has a
This comes from a thin (10m) media layer above the water.

> very alien feeling to me. I think it has to do with the very unearth like
> atmosphere, the stars light doesn't seem to be scattered very much at all,
> perhaps a very thin atmosphere?

You're right, the thin-athmosphere effect comes from a high eccentricity 
value (.85). Lower values looked more natural, but less interesting.

Lutz-Peter


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