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From: Claudius Klein
Subject: 2002: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 30 Sep 2000 06:33:12
Message: <39D5BEFA.CD547DD1@cityweb.de>
Hello!

This is a preview picture of the soon to be released movie "2002: Mars
Encounter". The shot was done from a high flying observer plane. :)

MegaPOV 0.5a, no radiosity, no post processing, sphere with water texture, two
simple cloud layers, media 'atmosphere', fog, mars image map from somewhere on
the internet.

Enjoy.

Claudius


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 30 Sep 2000 09:30:31
Message: <39d5eaf7@news.povray.org>
Looks good, and a nice cinematic effect.  I figure it to be 2.66:1 aspect
ratio; or CinemaScope type.  However, you have a 1.6:1 overall aspect which
isn't typical of TV (NTSC anyway) or PC monitors.
Think this has been seen before but I'll put it here (apt place again):
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2933/favaspectratio.html

Bob


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: 2002: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 30 Sep 2000 10:19:18
Message: <slrn8tbtdl.4ts.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
Really stunning. 

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From: Claudius Klein
Subject: Re: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 30 Sep 2000 14:18:06
Message: <39D62EAC.F9287D2A@cityweb.de>
Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Looks good, and a nice cinematic effect.  I figure it to be 2.66:1 aspect
> ratio; or CinemaScope type.  However, you have a 1.6:1 overall aspect which
> isn't typical of TV (NTSC anyway) or PC monitors.

Yes, it was intended to be Cinemascope and originally rendered at 800x300, so
the image is 2.66:1. But I enlarged the frame with black background to let it
get the *feeling* like being in cinema or watching this on TV.

> Think this has been seen before but I'll put it here (apt place again):
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2933/favaspectratio.html

Very informative site, thanks for the link.

Claudius


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From: Ross Litscher
Subject: Re: 2002: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 1 Oct 2000 13:08:08
Message: <39d76f78$1@news.povray.org>
That is beautiful. Do you have a larger render of it? Mail me if you want...


ross


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From: Sander
Subject: Re: 2002: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 3 Oct 2000 06:50:35
Message: <MPG.1443d878c42641e7989696@news.povray.org>
in povray.binaries.images, Claudius Klein says...
> Hello!
> 
> This is a preview picture of the soon to be released movie "2002: Mars
> Encounter". The shot was done from a high flying observer plane. :)
> 
> MegaPOV 0.5a, no radiosity, no post processing, sphere with water texture, two
> simple cloud layers, media 'atmosphere', fog, mars image map from somewhere on
> the internet.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> Claudius
> [image/jpeg]
> 
Claudius: all objects are really very good, but I have one question. To 
what astronomical object do the clouds belong? How could one ever see 
anything like this in reality? It is more like something in a dream, I 
have the feeling... Or is Mars placed very near to earth?
-- 
Regards,  Sander


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From: Claudius Klein
Subject: Re: 2002: Mars Encounter (WIP 66kB)
Date: 3 Oct 2000 14:44:51
Message: <39DA2982.FE48FE6C@cityweb.de>
Sander wrote:

> Claudius: all objects are really very good, but I have one question. To
> what astronomical object do the clouds belong? How could one ever see
> anything like this in reality? It is more like something in a dream, I
> have the feeling... Or is Mars placed very near to earth?
> --
> Regards,  Sander

It's some kind of science fiction fantasy. Mars has left its orbit and
encounters earth very near. What you can see is the sight from an observing
airplane that is flying between to cloud layers. The clouds belong to the
earth which is a sphere with radius of the earth (1 POV-unit = 1 kilometer)
and some simple water texture. Similar mars is also a sphere with image_map
and radius of Mars. The distance between the two planets is about (without
looking at the sources) 6000 kilometers. So this would be a very bad
catastrophic event.

The scene was purely some kind of playing around to get a nice space image.
Nothing too serious - and the source is too simple to post for analysis. :)

Hope this helps.

Claudius


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