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Stephen <mca### [at] aolDOT com> wrote:
> Is that the side wall? It looks a bit strange to me, hidden behind the
> mountains. If you could see it continuing just slightly above the
> mountain it might be more recognisable.
>
> To which god does one pray to, to move mountains? ;-)
I believe the locals name one Louis Wu. :)
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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: The Ringworld revisited (day and night)
Date: 21 Jun 2010 08:19:08
Message: <4c1f58bc$1@news.povray.org>
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High!
On 06/21/2010 10:53 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Here is a view that I start to find acceptable. 50000 trees were planted.
> Rendered in 14 minutes.
Impressive! Is the "local landscape" a simple heightfield or an isosurface?
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Now playing. Santa Fe (Deuter)
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On 21/06/2010 1:14 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Stephen<mca### [at] aolDOTcom> wrote:
>> Is that the side wall? It looks a bit strange to me, hidden behind the
>> mountains. If you could see it continuing just slightly above the
>> mountain it might be more recognisable.
>>
>> To which god does one pray to, to move mountains? ;-)
>
> I believe the locals name one Louis Wu. :)
>
>
LOL.
I've got Ringworld as a talking book. I must listen to it when driving
to and from work.
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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news:4c1f58bc$1@news.povray.org...
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> Impressive! Is the "local landscape" a simple heightfield or an
> isosurface?
Thank you indeed!
The local landscape is a patchwork macro of height_fields, thanks to John
Van Sickle.
Thomas
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht
news:web.4c1f2ed6325a7df36dd25f0b0@news.povray.org...
> Very nice. I love the way the wall looms over the regular foreground
> mountains.
> Maybe a sheer wall is more dramatic than spill mountains. I anticipate
> future
> iterations!
Thanks Bill!
The Rim Wall being so high, it "naturally" tends to loom even from far away.
We are standing here about 99% across the ring (calculated from the center).
So the Ring Wall still is about 5000 miles from the camera!
I wonder if it would really be visible so well, due to atmospheric haze and
such? I think that Larry Niven has not really considered the question... On
the other hand, the top of the wall is virtually out of the atmosphere, and
we may be able to see better a long way up than a long way away...
Thomas
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: The Ringworld revisited (day and night)
Date: 21 Jun 2010 10:15:35
Message: <4c1f7407@news.povray.org>
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"Stephen" <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> schreef in bericht
news:4c1f4c83$1@news.povray.org...
> Is that the side wall? It looks a bit strange to me, hidden behind the
> mountains. If you could see it continuing just slightly above the mountain
> it might be more recognisable.
The Rim Wall looms over the "local" landscape,, which is seen under an angle
of 80 degrees to the Ringworld.
> To which god does one pray to, to move mountains? ;-)
As Bill said: Louis Wu is the proper god. I wouldn't trust Nessus. ;-)
Thomas
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"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
> "Stephen" <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> schreef in bericht
> > To which god does one pray to, to move mountains? ;-)
>
> As Bill said: Louis Wu is the proper god. I wouldn't trust Nessus. ;-)
Well, the smart money would be on Nessus, but the locals never met him properly.
:)
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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: The Ringworld revisited (day and night)
Date: 21 Jun 2010 10:59:19
Message: <4c1f7e47@news.povray.org>
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...and a possible (mid)night view would be like this one. Render time is 35
minutes, mainly due to the water.
Thomas
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht
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> "Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>> "Stephen" <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> schreef in bericht
>> > To which god does one pray to, to move mountains? ;-)
>>
>> As Bill said: Louis Wu is the proper god. I wouldn't trust Nessus. ;-)
>
> Well, the smart money would be on Nessus, but the locals never met him
> properly.
> :)
Yes, he is the hidden one, if not the hindmost... ;-)
Thomas
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"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
> ...and a possible (mid)night view would be like this one. Render time is 35
> minutes, mainly due to the water.
Now that really is nice... a bit of light bloom and more opaque clouds would
make it almost perfect.
One thing has just struck me - I don't think the top of the wall would be
properly visible, especially at night. Since the top sticks out of the
atmosphere by some 800-900 miles, it should probably be obscured by the sky in
the same way as the arch, only showing up where in full sunlight. I don't know
how to make that look believable :\
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