Lenx wrote:

> My first impression was 'waaaw'
> it has something wonderfull, it even makes me think of tomb raider in some
> way. it actuates the same mood in me.
> To be honest, i thought it was a shiny floor with the mechanic in the
> center of the room. but when i took a closer look i saw it was a table.
> mabye a larger view can fix this.

maybe, but every unit I pull back the camera looses some definition
on the planets, there are some very difficult compromises to be made.

> very nice overal image!! finish it :-)

Thanks! I'll try.

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Bill Hails wrote:

> Jouni Pousi wrote:
>
>> What was your technique for making the Sun?
> 
> Please find attached, then say light_source { ... looks_like Sun }
> 

oh, and global_settings { max_trace_level 10 }
though 10 may be too high, it was just my first guess.

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Look here for some maps which you can
just map onto a sphere using spherical
mapping (map_type 2):

http://www.jht.cjb.net/

That could help for the moon. For the earth,
look here:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Regards,
Tim

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> Will W wrote:
>
> > I think this is great as is! But since you are asking for comments...
> >
> > Have you tried a lighter colored wood in the wainscotting? I'd like to
see
> > what it would look like with a wood of about the same tone as the
picture
> > frames (maybe keeping the chair rail the same as it is now).
>
> Actually I'd thought darker, to kind of echo the portrait on the wall,
> fading to black in the shadows.
>
> > The wallpaper is too distracting for my taste. Partly I think it isn't
> > flat enough: it seems to have depth of its own. Partly I think it's too
> > busy and colorful-- it really deserves to be the centerpiece of its own
> > picture-- here it seems to be trying to steal the show.
>
> Yes, now you mention it. I'd thought of calling the picture "God's Orrery"
> but that might have caused offence, maybe, esp with the connotations of
> "Gods Drawing Room", "God's Wallpaper" etc :-)
> Anyway that was the idea. I just don't know what to replace it with.
>
> > Can something be done with the edges of the planets with dense
> > atmospheres? That could make a nice distinction between the Moon and
> > Earth.
>
> Maybe, but in the planetary images I've looked at I don't see that
> distinction.
>
> > Is the Moon's appearance accurate for the face that we're seeing? I'm
just
> > curious about that.
>
> well it's just an orthographic image_map onto a sphere, the main
> problem then being keeping the sphere facing the camera. Of course
> since the image is taken from Earth the moon is therefore facing the
> wrong way, but I haven't found any Mercator projections of the moon
> I could use for a uv_mapping.
>
> > Again, I like this very much as is. But you did ask!
>
> Thanks very much! It's only my 3rd real attempt with Pov.
>
> > --
> > Will Woodhull
> > Thornhenge, SW Oregon, USA
> > willl.at.thornhenge.net
> >
>
> --
> I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids!

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"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
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> Will W wrote:
>
> > I think this is great as is! But since you are asking for comments...

<snip>

> Actually I'd thought darker, to kind of echo the portrait on the wall,
> fading to black in the shadows.

<snip>

> ..... I'd thought of calling the picture "God's Orrery"
> but that might have caused offence, maybe, esp with the connotations of
> "Gods Drawing Room", "God's Wallpaper" etc :-)

Ah! That triggered a distant memory from an art course long ago and far
away... and a search on "orrery" and "god" brought me to the original
painting. Nice allusion. Can you find a camera angle that would show all of
Wright's work? I didn't recognize it with its top cropped off.


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Bill Hails wrote:
> Arthur Flint wrote:
> 
> 
>>I like the concept, but just a question: how do they pass each other?
> 
> 
> Only just :-), see attached figure.

Don't let the kids play with it, you just know they're going to swing 
our moon into Mars.

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Tim Nikias v2.0 wrote:

> Look here for some maps which you can
> just map onto a sphere using spherical
> mapping (map_type 2):
> 
> http://www.jht.cjb.net/

That certainly is better for the moon, thanks very much.
By a strange coincidence that's the site where I got the
earth maps from, I just hadn't looked around.

> 
> That could help for the moon. For the earth,
> look here:
> 
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Wow, that's some resolution :-)

> Regards,
> Tim
> 
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> Tim Nikias v2.0
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
> Email: Tim### [at] gmxde
> 

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