"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> 0.4?
> 
> Nathan's web site says that 0.3 was released on 99/12/21, but makes no mention
> of 0.4.

Nathan is in the process of moving right now so his web site has not
been updated to reflect the change from v0.3 to v0.4. Additionaly
Nathan has run out of space on his web page for the windows executable
and will be offering it for download in the future from the povray.org
ftp server - ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Unofficial/MegaPOV/

You can get the Windows version of MegaPov v0.4 at the above URL but
reference to it from Nathans home page will have to wait for him
to reach Florida and get an online connection established.

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Thanks for the link.

Silly question: if I were to move to Alaska tomorrow, my web "presence" wouldn't
change, and I'd be able to connect in a heartbeat because AOL and FreeAltavista are
nationwide.  What gives?

Ken wrote:

> You can get the Windows version of MegaPov v0.4 at the above URL but
> reference to it from Nathans home page will have to wait for him
> to reach Florida and get an online connection established.
>
> --
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> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the link.
> 
> Silly question: if I were to move to Alaska tomorrow, my web "presence" wouldn't
> change, and I'd be able to connect in a heartbeat because AOL and FreeAltavista are
> nationwide.  What gives?

Only that Nathan is driving a car/truck right now and once in Florida
needs to move in, get settled, and take care of getting his computer
set up.

Is it possible to connect from a car with a laptop and a cell phone ?

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I've been using 3 layered image maps from 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/thomasc1/render/planets/earth.htm
with good results. 

sig.

"mr.art" wrote:
> 
> The real problem for me is to get the highlighting on the "water"
> areas only. Any ideas? The whole thing is an isosurface with a nice
> pigment map from NASA to overlay the shape. The isosurface is defined by
> a
> grayscale image from NASA.
> 
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> >
> > "mr.art" <mr.### [at] gcinet> wrote in message news:3894D38A.F6F3E4D4@gci.net...
> > | Actually, I had never seen the earth with highlights,
> >
> > It does of course.  Any elevation above ground from your standing height (or
> > lower?) to orbital height (and higher?) can show it.  Look into your own heads
> > shadow at noon and you'll likely see it's brighter immediately around the shadow
> > edges, from an airplane shows it very well, and there are numerous Earth photos
> > which show it too.  This particular image with the sunlight direction off-center
> > may be a different story though.  Anyway I've never seen that much before, it
> > implies a lot of roughness, or *small-scale angular faceting, on the surface.  I
> > want to try that type of highlighting myself now  :-)
> >
> > *blinn microfacets?
> >
> > Bob
> 
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> Mr. Art
> 
> "Often the appearance of reality is more important
> than the reality of the appearance."
> Bill DeWitt 2000

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:389### [at] pacbellnet...
| > Silly question: if I were to move to Alaska tomorrow, my web "presence"
wouldn't
| > change, and I'd be able to connect in a heartbeat because AOL and
FreeAltavista are
| > nationwide.  What gives?
|
| Only that Nathan is driving a car/truck right now and once in Florida
| needs to move in, get settled, and take care of getting his computer
| set up.
|
| Is it possible to connect from a car with a laptop and a cell phone ?

It is, but I'd never want to do so when on the road.  Well, maybe if stopped
over someplace a couple days.  I treat any travel like a vacation, including
vacation from internet connecting.
For Outlook users: http://www.nmia.com/~jtech

Bob

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I'm posting an example of the 'image_pattern' at the p.t.s-f.
Look for "Land and Water: Differing Highlights" there.

Bob

"mr.art" <mr.### [at] gcinet> wrote in message news:389513FD.61B38A2F@gci.net...
| Can you cite me some examples of the image_pattern? It looks like what I
| need to use but I could learn allot from someone else's work.

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Bob Hughes wrote:

> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:389### [at] pacbellnet...
> | Is it possible to connect from a car with a laptop and a cell phone ?
>
> It is, but I'd never want to do so when on the road.  Well, maybe if stopped
> over someplace a couple days.  I treat any travel like a vacation, including
> vacation from internet connecting.

Isn't it also quite expensive and insecure?

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"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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| Bob Hughes wrote:
|
| > "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
| > news:389### [at] pacbellnet...
| > | Is it possible to connect from a car with a laptop and a cell phone ?
| >
| > It is, but I'd never want to do so when on the road.  Well, maybe if stopped
| > over someplace a couple days.  I treat any travel like a vacation, including
| > vacation from internet connecting.
|
| Isn't it also quite expensive and insecure?

Oh, well I was just answering Kens question about something I don't know about.
Not the first time that's happened.

Bob

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Bob Hughes wrote:

> "David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
> news:3896209C.C01855F4@faricy.net...
> | Bob Hughes wrote:
> |
> | > "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> | > news:389### [at] pacbellnet...
> | > | Is it possible to connect from a car with a laptop and a cell phone ?
> | >
> | > It is, but I'd never want to do so when on the road.  Well, maybe if stopped
> | > over someplace a couple days.  I treat any travel like a vacation, including
> | > vacation from internet connecting.
> |
> | Isn't it also quite expensive and insecure?
>
> Oh, well I was just answering Kens question about something I don't know about.
> Not the first time that's happened.

Happens to me all the time :-) (As you probably already knew)
But I agree it is good to treat a road trip like a vacation.

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When my family and I take our "road trip" this summer,
I will find it hard not to log on somewhere and see what
you all are up to. I don't see the internet as something
that you need to take a vacation from. You take a vacation
from the things that you have had enough of.
I plan to have the computers packed close to the outside
so I can get to them. When we move to Alaska, we had one
machine packed in the back of our Suburban and we set it
up every place that we stayed that had a phone jack. My
wife kept in touch with all of our friends that had an
interest in our trip. And though our list of interested
friends has shrunk some, our online family has grown.
Even my own biological family is getting into the
online thing and might want progress reports of the
trip.

David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> > "David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
> > news:3896209C.C01855F4@faricy.net...
> > | Bob Hughes wrote:
> > |
> > | > "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> > | > news:389### [at] pacbellnet...
> > | > | Is it possible to connect from a car with a laptop and a cell phone ?
> > | >
> > | > It is, but I'd never want to do so when on the road.  Well, maybe if stopped
> > | > over someplace a couple days.  I treat any travel like a vacation, including
> > | > vacation from internet connecting.
> > |
> > | Isn't it also quite expensive and insecure?
> >
> > Oh, well I was just answering Kens question about something I don't know about.
> > Not the first time that's happened.
> 
> Happens to me all the time :-) (As you probably already knew)
> But I agree it is good to treat a road trip like a vacation.
> 
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