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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 30 Jun 2004 15:50:52
Message: <40e3199c@news.povray.org>
No landscape to offer (my swamp is rerendering at the moment),
but this turned out fairly nice, so I thought I'd share it.

Uses Chris Colefax's galaxy include, maps of neptune and jupiter
and a lot of media.

Comments? Suggestions for improvement?

Gail
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From: Stefan Viljoen
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 02:41:35
Message: <40e3b21f@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:

> No landscape to offer (my swamp is rerendering at the moment),
> but this turned out fairly nice, so I thought I'd share it.
> 
> Uses Chris Colefax's galaxy include, maps of neptune and jupiter
> and a lot of media.
> 
> Comments? Suggestions for improvement?

WOW
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Stefan Viljoen
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From: Marneus Calgar
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 02:59:17
Message: <mn.0a1b7d47f8af3ae7.14125@please.com>
Gail Shaw avait énoncé :
> No landscape to offer (my swamp is rerendering at the moment),
> but this turned out fairly nice, so I thought I'd share it.
>
> Uses Chris Colefax's galaxy include, maps of neptune and jupiter
> and a lot of media.
>
> Comments? Suggestions for improvement?
>
> Gail

I like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could you render it in 1024x768 please ? :-)

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http://www.darkskull.net

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From: Slime
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 03:35:00
Message: <40e3bea4$1@news.povray.org>
> Comments? Suggestions for improvement?

Very nice. Good colors.

I would suggest making the media halos around the planets thinner.
Especially the closer one. atmosphere doesn't go that high off the planet so
it sort of looks weird to me.

Other minor suggestions/ideas:
 - Maybe add a lot of really tiny asteroids in the asteroid ring; they're
all really big, I'd expect more debris.
 - Work on the stars a little? they're all the same brightness and size, and
the density is uniform.
 - Looks like the sun has a simple spherical density. Consider adding
cubic_wave to smooth out the edge a little more. (This may require
increasing the brightness to keep the same look.)

Cool image, though.

 - Slime
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From: Josh
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 04:54:02
Message: <40e3d12a@news.povray.org>
Yea Wow!


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From: Tim Bates
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 05:56:43
Message: <40e3dfdb$1@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:
> Comments? Suggestions for improvement?

Looks great. My only suggestion might be to rotate the asteroid ring 
slightly so that we're not looking directly side-on to in, and it's 
clearer that it's going all around the planet. I was a bit confused at 
first as it looked like it was just a straight line of pebbles.

Tim.


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From: Laurent ARTAUD
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 08:20:49
Message: <40e401a1$1@news.povray.org>
Wow!
I like it.
The only thing you should improve, IMHO, is the asteroids belt. More of 
them and with more different sizes.

Great job.

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Laurent ARTAUD


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From: Martin Belair
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 10:04:54
Message: <Xns9519668EF830Fbadhabit07hotmaildot@203.29.75.35>
"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] sentechsacom> wrote in news:40e3199c@news.povray.org:

> 
> Uses Chris Colefax's galaxy include, maps of neptune and jupiter
> and a lot of media.
> 
> Comments? Suggestions for improvement?


WOW! My desktop is 1600X1200, is there a possibility to get one? ;)

Ciao!

Mart


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From: JWV
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 11:01:03
Message: <40e4272f$1@news.povray.org>
I was thinking the same about the asteroids. But now Gail wrote his message,
I see it is a ring around the planet.
So you can try to rotate it, and of course as the others mentioned, use more
different sized rocks.

O, and the image looks very good :-).

Greetings,

JWV

"Tim Bates" <tim### [at] batesidau> wrote in message
news:40e3dfdb$1@news.povray.org...
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > Comments? Suggestions for improvement?
>
> Looks great. My only suggestion might be to rotate the asteroid ring
> slightly so that we're not looking directly side-on to in, and it's
> clearer that it's going all around the planet. I was a bit confused at
> first as it looked like it was just a straight line of pebbles.
>
> Tim.


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 14:14:23
Message: <40e4547f@news.povray.org>
Here you go

Gail

"Marneus Calgar" <Nos### [at] pleasecom> wrote in message
news:mn.### [at] pleasecom...
>
> I like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> could you render it in 1024x768 please ? :-)
>
> --
>
> Dark Skull Software
> http://www.darkskull.net
>
> A+
>


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 1 Jul 2004 23:14:58
Message: <40e4d332$1@news.povray.org>
Almost zazzle-able.  Much cooler than I was expecting from the title
alone...


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From: Marc Jacquier
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 2 Jul 2004 03:23:54
Message: <40e50d8a@news.povray.org>
"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] sentechsacom> a écrit dans le message de news:
40e3199c@news.povray.org...
> No landscape to offer (my swamp is rerendering at the moment),
> but this turned out fairly nice, so I thought I'd share it.
>
> Uses Chris Colefax's galaxy include, maps of neptune and jupiter
> and a lot of media.
>
> Comments? Suggestions for improvement?
>
> Gail
> --

Wery nice image!!!
I waited till I put the finger on what annoys me.
As some of us, asteroid belt is not what I prefer in your image.
There is not enough perspective in it, I think it is because your rocks are
way too big, they show very big even in the remote side of the ring.
Maybe you could try smaller pebbles and get camera closer to the ring. It'd
give a better sense of depth and large dimensions
BTW did you see Cassini's pics of Saturn rings?
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm

Marc


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 2 Jul 2004 16:11:56
Message: <40e5c18c@news.povray.org>
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.

The rocks bother me too. The main problem is that the distances between
the objects aren't realistic. I'm going to try and scale the rocks according
to the distance from the camera, sere what kind of effect that has. Along
with
smaller rocks and more of them.

I've just finished rendering a 1600*1200 version, so if anyone wants a
copy, mail me.

Gail
--
*************************************************************************
* gsh### [at] sentechsacom        *  If one is going to lose one's mind,     *
* http://gail.rucus.net/     *  one might as well savor the experience  *
*************************************************************************
* This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness    *
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 3 Jul 2004 09:48:41
Message: <40e6b939@news.povray.org>
There was a little thing that bothered me in your excellent scene: the
shadows on the planets and rocks seem not to align really with the (visible)
sun, but with one that is just out of the image, above the upper right-hand
corner. Is that so? Or am I suffering from space sickness?

Thomas


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 4 Jul 2004 06:50:27
Message: <40e7e0f3@news.povray.org>
"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlnet> wrote in message
news:40e6b939@news.povray.org...
> There was a little thing that bothered me in your excellent scene: the
> shadows on the planets and rocks seem not to align really with the
(visible)
> sun, but with one that is just out of the image, above the upper
right-hand
> corner. Is that so? Or am I suffering from space sickness?
>

Drat, you noticed. You are correct, I wanted the suns in the scene and
visible shadows on the
rocks. The rocks are in a light group of their own.

The planets, however are lit by the two suns in the upper right.

I'll move the lights a bit, see what happens.

Gail
--
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* gsh### [at] sentechsacom        *  If one is going to lose one's mind,     *
* http://gail.rucus.net/     *  one might as well savor the experience  *
*************************************************************************
* This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness    *
*************************************************************************


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 6 Jul 2004 11:45:00
Message: <web.40eac80f9e1341f71087b900@news.povray.org>
"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] sentechsacom> wrote:
> Here you go
>
> Gail
>
[snip]

Gail, I download your image and was using as wallpaper at work. Someone
mentioned he liked it. Which prompted me to tell him you were countrymen.
Him being from SA and remembers you from Rhodes. Ryan Burton sends his
greetings and really likes your work.

Regards
Stephen


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 6 Jul 2004 14:36:17
Message: <40eaf121@news.povray.org>
> Gail, I download your image and was using as wallpaper at work. Someone
> mentioned he liked it. Which prompted me to tell him you were countrymen.
> Him being from SA and remembers you from Rhodes. Ryan Burton sends his
> greetings and really likes your work.

Wow, talk about a small world. Please tell him I say hi.

Gail
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* gsh### [at] sentechsacom        *  If one is going to lose one's mind,     *
* http://gail.rucus.net/     *  one might as well savor the experience  *
*************************************************************************
* This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness    *
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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 7 Jul 2004 07:45:00
Message: <web.40ebe1889e1341f71087b900@news.povray.org>
"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] sentechsacom> wrote:
[snip]
>
> Wow, talk about a small world. Please tell him I say hi.
>
> Gail

Well, we talked about how small the world is, especially in IT. He says Hi
to you too!

Stephen


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From: Marneus Calgar
Subject: Re: Spacescape (160kbu)
Date: 7 Jul 2004 08:07:43
Message: <mn.3b4f7d471a2e9e45.14125@please.com>
Gail Shaw avait soumis l'idée :
> Here you go
>
> Gail
>
> "Marneus Calgar" <Nos### [at] pleasecom> wrote in message
> news:mn.### [at] pleasecom...
>> 
>> I like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> could you render it in 1024x768 please ? :-)

Thank you !

-- 

Dark Skull Software
http://www.darkskull.net

A+


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