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From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 9 Jan 2010 12:37:19
Message: <op.u590kdmtufxv4h@xena>
Are the clouds procedural? If so, I would love to see the code for the  
cloads.

-Nekar Xenos-

On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:41:16 +0200, Peter Hokanson  
<pch### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been working on a small project involving rendering the Earth from
> space over winter vacation, and I wanted to share a quick test render  
> that
> I'm pretty happy with.  I'm using some of Christoph's methods for the
> atmosphere (specifically the media).
>
> I was experimenting with the clouds, and tried using a spherical-density
> scattering media (type 3), which shows depth much more than a pigmented
> sphere.
>
> I'm not completely satisfied -- the land masses are lacking in contrast,
> which is something I plan on looking at next, but I'm pretty happy with  
> it.
>
> Total render time was 453 seconds.
>
>  - Peter


-- 
-Nekar Xenos-
"The spoon is not real"


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