POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Planet : Re: Planet Server Time
17 Aug 2024 00:09:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Planet  
From: Coridon Henshaw
Date: 30 Nov 2001 20:16:58
Message: <Xns9169CE5329C56CoridonHenshaw@204.213.191.226>
Bryan Valencia <bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote in news:3C06C301.D53974C@
209software.com:

> Supposedly a gas giant with it's moons.

You might want to use some NASA pics for reference if you're trying to 
create a realistic scene.  What you've got now looks toonish because of the 
number of moons, the density of the starfield, and the high level of 
ambient light.

Here's a few examples of what planets look like in real photos:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/near_earth_moon.jpg
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/gal_earth_moon.jpg
http://www.solarviews.com/r/nep/neptri.gif
http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/solar/b/nep/trinep3.jpg


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