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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Subject: Planet WIP
Date: 2 Mar 2004 09:59:38
Message: <Xns94A0A29D51C36raf256com@203.29.75.35>
Small planet WIP insipred by World-Donut. 

How does it look for ~1h of work (very early wip)?

All comments positive and negative are wellcomed


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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Subject: Re: Planet WIP - 1 attachment
Date: 2 Mar 2004 10:02:29
Message: <Xns94A0A3148C06Craf256com@203.29.75.35>
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forgot something... ;)


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From: Marc Roth
Subject: Re: Planet WIP - 1 attachment
Date: 2 Mar 2004 11:50:25
Message: <4044bb51$1@news.povray.org>
i think the moon too near/big, but i really like the background. it's 
like in some kind of stellar nebula (spelling?) the colors on the 
planet's continents are a bit too bright.
bye,
	Marc


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From: Richard Callwood III
Subject: Re: Planet WIP - 1 attachment
Date: 2 Mar 2004 18:40:19
Message: <b56a40hr76a9odgvdfku5ecdgaj9i5gnhh@4ax.com>
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:55:18 +0100, Marc Roth <mar### [at] rothconsultcom>
wrote:

>i think the moon too near/big,

It's certainly not too big, as Pluto's moon Charon is almost as big as
Pluto itself.  I also don't know what is "too near," but the tides on
this planet must be indescribably savage.  That is, unless the moon
has a tidal lock on the planet (which is indeed the case with Pluto).
In this case, tourists must flock from the other side of the planet
just to have a look at this celestial wonder that they never get to
see from home.

POV story-telling!  Is this a new genre?

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From: Marc Roth
Subject: Re: Planet WIP - 1 attachment
Date: 3 Mar 2004 08:22:37
Message: <4045dc1d@news.povray.org>
Richard Callwood III wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:55:18 +0100, Marc Roth <mar### [at] rothconsultcom>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>i think the moon too near/big,
> 
> 
> It's certainly not too big, as Pluto's moon Charon is almost as big as
> Pluto itself.
  hm, i didn't know about that...
> I also don't know what is "too near," but the tides on
> this planet must be indescribably savage.  That is, unless the moon
> has a tidal lock on the planet (which is indeed the case with Pluto).
hehe, i like that, tides of about 50m up and down... no chance for 
harbor-towns
> In this case, tourists must flock from the other side of the planet
> just to have a look at this celestial wonder that they never get to
> see from home.
> 
> POV story-telling!  Is this a new genre?
it would certainly be interesting, like an animation that occurs only in 
the reader's/watcher's mind, less cpu-intensive but much more detailed :)
bye,
	Marc


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From: Apollo16
Subject: Re: Planet WIP - 1 attachment
Date: 3 Mar 2004 14:05:46
Message: <40462BA6.50207@earthlink.net>
It is too close however. There is something called the Roche Limit which 
is approximately 2.4 times the radius of the larger (technically more 
massive) object. If the other object enters within the Roche Limit then 
the body will break up into a ring. Saturn's rings were caused either by 
a moonlet that fell into the Roche Limit and broke up or material that 
couldn't form a moon because it was within the Roche Limit.

But having said that... I am all for "artistic license."

Apollo16

Richard Callwood III wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:55:18 +0100, Marc Roth <mar### [at] rothconsultcom>
>wrote:
>
>  
>
>>i think the moon too near/big,
>>    
>>
>
>It's certainly not too big, as Pluto's moon Charon is almost as big as
>Pluto itself.  I also don't know what is "too near," but the tides on
>this planet must be indescribably savage.  That is, unless the moon
>has a tidal lock on the planet (which is indeed the case with Pluto).
>In this case, tourists must flock from the other side of the planet
>just to have a look at this celestial wonder that they never get to
>see from home.
>
>POV story-telling!  Is this a new genre?
>
>  
>


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Planet WIP - 1 attachment
Date: 3 Mar 2004 18:38:51
Message: <40466D72.3C25FF90@gmx.de>
High!

Rafal 'Raf256' Maj schrieb:

> forgot something... ;)

Yes, there's no visible atmosphere... and the deep part of the sea should be
much darker, something like rgb <0, 0, 0.3>. Also, the clouds' (are they
media? Obviously they float somewhat above the planet's surface...) shapes are
not very believable - they should arrange in spiralling swirls, just like in
cyclones on Earth, and the inner regions of larger continents should be less
cloudy.

And where are the craters on your moon? Perhaps you'll try a crackle
isosurface, using form <1, 0, 0> instead of the default <-1, 1, 0>, averaging
in some bumps or wrinkles.

But - with a large moon *that* close to your planet, its continents should be
mostly washed away by monstrous tides!

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Yadgar

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