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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 10 Sep 2004 19:53:39
Message: <41423e83@news.povray.org>
ok, tuned the radiosity in.  Moved the craft around.  The detailing on the blue ship
is next.  Then
I'll hang another asteroid or 2 in the sky and call it a day.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 10 Sep 2004 21:08:33
Message: <41425011$1@news.povray.org>
Bryan Valencia wrote:
> ok, tuned the radiosity in.  Moved the craft around.  The detailing on the blue ship
is next.  Then
> I'll hang another asteroid or 2 in the sky and call it a day.

I don't know I'd put a big glass dome right next to where the spaceships 
crash.


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 11 Sep 2004 13:19:38
Message: <414333aa$1@news.povray.org>
Bryan Valencia nous apporta ses lumieres ainsi en ce 10-09-2004 19:54... :

>ok, tuned the radiosity in.  Moved the craft around.  The detailing on the blue ship
is next.  Then
>I'll hang another asteroid or 2 in the sky and call it a day.
>
>
>
>  
>
I think that the ship's exausts should be broader and more diffuse. In a 
vacuum, rocket exaust tend to be more conical with the brightest part at 
the muzzle.

Alain


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From: =Bob=
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 13 Sep 2004 16:29:04
Message: <41460310$1@news.povray.org>
"Bryan Valencia" <bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote in message
news:41423e83@news.povray.org...
: ok, tuned the radiosity in.  Moved the craft around.  The detailing on the blue ship
is next.  Then
: I'll hang another asteroid or 2 in the sky and call it a day.

This looks really great! I think the two ships seem a little
too close. Lights in the domed city could be brighter. I
really like the ground texture. Seems like the picture
could use some lights indicating the landing areas,
and usually landing pads have numbering or some kind
of identity.
=Bob=


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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 14 Sep 2004 23:11:13
Message: <4147b2d1@news.povray.org>
Thanks - Great ideas.  I'm kind of stuck on the ships thing because I want to show how
much smaller
the little ships are than the giant freighter...



"=Bob=" <robertUNDERSCOREdobbinsATmailDOTtdsDOTnet> wrote in message
news:41460310$1@news.povray.org...
| "Bryan Valencia" <bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote in message
news:41423e83@news.povray.org...
| : ok, tuned the radiosity in.  Moved the craft around.  The detailing on the blue
ship is next.
Then
| : I'll hang another asteroid or 2 in the sky and call it a day.
|
| This looks really great! I think the two ships seem a little
| too close. Lights in the domed city could be brighter. I
| really like the ground texture. Seems like the picture
| could use some lights indicating the landing areas,
| and usually landing pads have numbering or some kind
| of identity.
| =Bob=
|
|


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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 15 Sep 2004 16:29:15
Message: <4148a61b@news.povray.org>
That's part of the continual thrill of living on an asteroid.

I guess my thinking is that the ships would weigh like 15 pounds in this
environment, so you could probably land right on the dome without damaging
it - assuming it's sufficiently durable to withstand the constant barrage of
asteroid debris.

I actually thought of a story where a pilot overshoots the landing pad, and
picks up his ship to re-center it on the pad.


"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:41425011$1@news.povray.org...
> I don't know I'd put a big glass dome right next to where the spaceships
> crash.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 15 Sep 2004 17:04:53
Message: <4148ae75@news.povray.org>
Bryan Valencia wrote:
> I guess my thinking is that the ships would weigh like 15 pounds in this
> environment, so you could probably land right on the dome without damaging
> it 

Well, you might be able to rest it on the dome, but you'd have a hard 
time crashing it into the dome. It may weigh only 15 pounds, but it 
still has the same inertia it does anywhere else. That is, if it weighs 
15 pounds but masses 5000 tons, and you're between it (moving 1 MPH) and 
a rock wall, chances are you're going to get squished.

And now I'm *really* being pendantic. ;-)


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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Another try at the asteroid city
Date: 15 Sep 2004 17:49:07
Message: <4148b8d3$1@news.povray.org>
Ok, the real reason is that I wanted the landing pads and the city in the
picture together.  Maybe I will move them just for safety, you never know if
NASA will get this and use it to design an asteroid city :)

BTW: Check this...

http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

I found it quite edutaining.



"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:4148ae75@news.povray.org...
> Bryan Valencia wrote:
> > I guess my thinking is that the ships would weigh like 15 pounds in this
> > environment, so you could probably land right on the dome without
damaging
> > it
>
> Well, you might be able to rest it on the dome, but you'd have a hard
> time crashing it into the dome. It may weigh only 15 pounds, but it
> still has the same inertia it does anywhere else. That is, if it weighs
> 15 pounds but masses 5000 tons, and you're between it (moving 1 MPH) and
> a rock wall, chances are you're going to get squished.
>
> And now I'm *really* being pendantic. ;-)


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