POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Solar Sail : Re: Solar Sail Server Time
1 Oct 2024 07:19:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Solar Sail  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 4 Sep 2000 10:23:21
Message: <chrishuff-347F06.09250004092000@news.povray.org>
In article <39B323A3.7548E644@istar.ca>, sde### [at] istarca wrote:

> Something I've been working on for the last few days.
> 
> It was originally inspired by the tropical lionfish, then by insects,
> and now I've been told it looks like an umbrella. Ah well...
> 
> The cylindrical hull is just a junk object, to give a sense of the size
> of the final hull. Most of the model is untextured.

Nice! I don't think it resembles an umbrella much...but it does seem out 
of scale. To get useable propulsion from the solar wind, the sails 
should be *much* larger, like 10-50 times.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/

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