Have a look at this...

Took approximately 5 minutes to render on an AMD Athlon64 3500+. That's 
mainly due to the media clouds though. (The sampling parameters should 
probably be slightly higher still, but anyway...)

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It's actually a single frame from a roughly 2 minute animation. (Of 
course, "2 minutes" isn't anywhere near the total render time...)

When I had a look at the later frames, I found the spheres get a bit 
lost in the sky. So I made them somewhat less reflective. What you do think?


PS. Yeah, I know the clouds anomolusly *stop* half way down the sky for 
no apparent reason. You see, the _real_ sky is ever so slightly curved. 
However, if I ask POV-Ray to render a 3-mile section of a sphere that is 
several hundred thousand miles across... I think it might complain slightly.

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Well anyway, that's scene #1. For scene #2 I chose a slightly less 
Apocolyptic sky. ;-)

This image took 23 minutes to render on my 64-bit beast machine. I'm 
going to render the whole 3,000-frame animation on my puny little Athlon 
1700 thing downstairs. (I need my sleep!) That should take a few 
weeks... :-\

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Orchid XP v2 wrote:

> Well anyway, that's scene #1. For scene #2 I chose a slightly less 
> Apocolyptic sky. ;-)
> 
> This image took 23 minutes to render on my 64-bit beast machine. I'm 
> going to render the whole 3,000-frame animation on my puny little Athlon 
> 1700 thing downstairs. (I need my sleep!) That should take a few 
> weeks... :-\
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

I like this one far more than the other.

-DJ

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>> Well anyway, that's scene #1. For scene #2 I chose a slightly less 
>> Apocolyptic sky. ;-)
> 
> I like this one far more than the other.

Mmm, yes... I think I agree.

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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:56:35 +0100, Orchid XP v2 wrote:

> Well anyway, that's scene #1. For scene #2 I chose a slightly less
> Apocolyptic sky. ;-)
> 
> This image took 23 minutes to render on my 64-bit beast machine. I'm going
> to render the whole 3,000-frame animation on my puny little Athlon 1700
> thing downstairs. (I need my sleep!) That should take a few weeks... :-\

I like this second image better than the first one, although both are
cool.  :)

Why is the horizon curved?


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povray nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 01/05/2006 21:37:
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:56:35 +0100, Orchid XP v2 wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well anyway, that's scene #1. For scene #2 I chose a slightly less
>>Apocolyptic sky. ;-)
>>
>>This image took 23 minutes to render on my 64-bit beast machine. I'm going
>>to render the whole 3,000-frame animation on my puny little Athlon 1700
>>thing downstairs. (I need my sleep!) That should take a few weeks... :-\
> 
> 
> I like this second image better than the first one, although both are
> cool.  :)
> 
> Why is the horizon curved?
> 
> 
Not curved but angled. Isosurface used for the water. The horizon you see is the end
of the 
container box.

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person you may be the world.

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> I like this second image better than the first one, although both are
> cool.  :)

:-D

> Why is the horizon curved?

Um... well, the real planet Earth is very slightly curved too. But I 
figured POV-Ray might be a little upset if I asked it to render a sphere 
several million miles across with the camera just a few feet above its 
surface. ;-)

So... yeah. The horizon is more curved than it should be. :-S

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>> Why is the horizon curved?
>>
>>
> Not curved but angled. Isosurface used for the water. The horizon you 
> see is the end of the container box.

No isosurfaces here my friend. ;-)

Actually, the water is an infinite plane, and the sky is a sphere. The 
only way I could make the horizon straight would be if it the camera 
intersected the water... but that wouldn't be too useful, would it? :-S

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