In article <39005ea6$1@news.povray.org>, "Simen Kvaal" 
<sim### [at] studentmatnatuiono> wrote:

> > Er, I don't see any lightning. Or do you mean lighting?
> Yes... (my english is a bit rstttyy sometimes...,)

Well, my english is also a bit rstttyy sometimes...and it is the only 
language I know!
I still think it might be interesting with lightning arcing from the 
spheres to a tree branch, or something like that... :-)


> > Which kind of clouds are you looking for? Whispy, cirrus clouds? Dark
> > stormclouds? Sparse, fluffy clouds?
> 
> All of them!! But in this particular case, I'd go for the stratos 
> kind; the ones resembling fishbones ... I think one might call them 
> "sparse, fluffy". Can you help? I got a message from mr. Hazelgrove, 
> and I'm eager to try it out, too.

Hmm, I think I would play around with using agate or unevenly scaled 
wrinkles patterns as either a multi-layered texture or as a media 
density...


> Thanks! I was actually inspired by a Tangerine Dream cover, although 
> I've never heard the music... The thought was to make this extremely 
> perfect (speaking textureing) _and- realistic, and adding some sunny 
> sky and grass below. I am still working on the grass, creating a 
> (hpoefully not so slow) macro using bezier patches. Any hints 
> welcome!

Maybe make a fractal tree with perfectly straight branches and 
non-random angles, and have these "fruit" hanging from it...you could 
use blobs to give the tree an organic look.

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