Thanks in part to Chris J.'s post of his lunar eclipse because that motivated me
to go ahead with rendering one up myself, here's the URL to my interpretation:
 http://members.aol.com/persistenceofv/lunrclps.mpg  ~740KB for a faster d/l
than if I had posted here.  It's 400x300 res. 98 frames.  Used two negative
spotlights behind the Earth to get the central and edge darkness, a regular
spotlight for the color and arealight for the sun.
Not physically accurate, just a quick fake.  It got affected by some noise, from
the arealight jitter I think, in the image mapping so the Earth sparkles quite a
bit.  I was trying a 'turbulence 0.1*clock' of the cloud map but it didn't seem
to change it.  At least the clouds are rotated independently anyway.
In case anyone's thinking of mentioning the brightness of Earth I was going for
a very distant telescopic view, like Chris J. had said too, so it would
presumably be very bright compared to Earth orbit photos but I think I might
change it to look more like local proximity (and get rid of that ugly noise!).

Bob

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Bob

I just look at this and think it's really good.  It may not be physically
accurate but it works very well in illustrating an eclipse.

(Just an aside here, not a bash. I wish Outlook would let
me right click on the link and save it to disk.)

Peter

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Huh?  I use Outlook (Express 5) and it does a Save Target as... when a link is
right-clicked.  I made sure and checked on my own post there, I use text for
posting and reading too.  Don't know why you wouldn't be able to do the same, I
just use Outlook and don't know all about it but I wondered if you might have
HTML enabled accept there isn't any special settings like that for =reading= a
news message that I have here anyway.  Hope you get that fixed, I use the
"right-click save as" a lot myself.
Oh yeah, and thanks for that fine comment, I'll take that  :-)

Bob

"Peter Warren" <int### [at] halcyoncom> wrote in message
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| Bob
|
| I just look at this and think it's really good.  It may not be physically
| accurate but it works very well in illustrating an eclipse.
|
| (Just an aside here, not a bash. I wish Outlook would let
| me right click on the link and save it to disk.)
|
| Peter
|
|

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Bob Hughes wrote in message <388dc7f3@news.povray.org>...
>Huh?  I use Outlook (Express 5) and it does a Save Target as... when a link
is
>right-clicked.  I made sure and checked on my own post there, I use text
for
>posting and reading too.  Don't know why you wouldn't be able to do the
same, I
>just use Outlook and don't know all about it but I wondered if you might
have
>HTML enabled accept there isn't any special settings like that for
=reading= a
>news message that I have here anyway.  Hope you get that fixed, I use the
>"right-click save as" a lot myself.
>Oh yeah, and thanks for that fine comment, I'll take that  :-)


He's using version 4.72.3110.1 (like me) and it doesn't have that feature.

Mark

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