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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Clouds - attached files (1/1)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 08:05:37
Message: <cjameshuff-5827D4.08053402032005@news.povray.org>
Nothing revolutionary, just slow old media clouds. The large image took 
about 1 hour 50 minutes to render. The scenes are based on a heavily 
updated mediasky.pov, and the scene dimensions are based on the real 
world. The ground is a sphere 6378 km in radius, there is an atmosphere 
shell that extends to an altitude of about 100 km, and the clouds are up 
around 2 km. There is another shell near the ground simulating 
low-altitude haze. The clouds and ground haze are type 2, Mie haze, and 
the sky is type 4, Rayleigh scattering.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] gmailcom>
POV-Ray TAG: <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg>
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From: Art Flint
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 11:54:00
Message: <4225efa8@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff wrote:
> Nothing revolutionary, just slow old media clouds.

Might be slow, but still looks good.


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From: Dave Matthews
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 15:40:00
Message: <web.422623fb3ef6c16f8c7259570@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Nothing revolutionary, just slow old media clouds. The large image took
> about 1 hour 50 minutes to render. The scenes are based on a heavily
> updated mediasky.pov, and the scene dimensions are based on the real
> world. The ground is a sphere 6378 km in radius, there is an atmosphere
> shell that extends to an altitude of about 100 km, and the clouds are up
> around 2 km. There is another shell near the ground simulating
> low-altitude haze. The clouds and ground haze are type 2, Mie haze, and
> the sky is type 4, Rayleigh scattering.
>
> --
> Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] gmailcom>
> POV-Ray TAG: <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg>
> http://tag.povray.org/

Wow.  Looks like another faux(pho)-POV ;-) (when someone tries to pass off
actual photography as a POVRay render)

If I recall correctly, you also live in the midwestern US, perhaps that's
why the clouds look so exactly like what I'm used to seeing.

How did you do the rain(?) in the 3rd one?

On another topic, how much difference does Rayleigh scattering make?  In the
scenes I've tried, I can't tell much difference between scattering methods,
but I'm probably using poor examples.

Dave Matthews


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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1) - attached files (1/1)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 15:49:11
Message: <cjameshuff-006343.15490902032005@news.povray.org>
In article <4225efa8@news.povray.org>, Art Flint <pfl### [at] stxrrcom> 
wrote:

> Christopher James Huff wrote:
> > Nothing revolutionary, just slow old media clouds.
> 
> Might be slow, but still looks good.

Here's some new ones, trying for something more like light rainclouds. 
rainyskylate.jpg was an attempt at a late afternoon sky, not quite what 
I intended but pretty nice looking. I'm starting to get better structure 
on the large clouds, which were pretty featureless in the earlier 
renders.

I'm still not quite satisfied with the horizon, it shouldn't be glowing 
so brightly, but I think some work on the atmosphere density falloff 
will fix that. In any case, the combination of haze and curvature do a 
pretty good job of fixing the "infinite horizon" problem. At least it 
should be useful for most scenes, where the horizon isn't visible. And 
since clouds are too distant to interact directly with most scenes, you 
could just use a background sky_sphere from a pre-rendered sky. (HDRI 
would be very useful here.)

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] gmailcom>
POV-Ray TAG: <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg>
http://tag.povray.org/


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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1) - attached files (1/1)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 15:51:29
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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 16:07:04
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From: George Leroy Tirebiter
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1)
Date: 4 Mar 2005 18:55:00
Message: <web.4228f3723ef6c16f1583d35f0@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> The clouds and ground haze are type 2, Mie haze,
> and the sky is type 4, Rayleigh scattering.

Very nice! I would love to see the source for this. I have tried before to
model the atmosphere using scattering media, but I never could properly
balance the molecular and particulate contributions.


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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Clouds - attached files (1/1)
Date: 4 Mar 2005 23:20:58
Message: <cjameshuff-D99535.23205504032005@news.povray.org>


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