ABX wrote:
> 
> And I am happy to see it. Great work!

Thank you.

Christoph

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ABX wrote:
> 
> BTW: In Gallery there is only split to "by region and style" and the top of
> the page and it's not handy for me. Could it be possible to add more anchors
> to each region and each style at the top so I could quickly jump to requested
> subcategory after entring gallery?

Check if you like it better now - i added a gallery menu where you can 
access the different region and style galleries.  Note there are various 
possible options for the gallery, try:

http://earth.imagico.de/gallery-menu.php?category=region
http://earth.imagico.de/gallery-menu.php?category=style
http://earth.imagico.de/gallery.php?area=samerica
http://earth.imagico.de/gallery.php?style=high
http://earth.imagico.de/gallery.php?site=fuji&category=region
http://earth.imagico.de/gallery.php?site=fuji&category=style

Christoph

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:33:45 +0100, Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
wrote:
> Check if you like it better now - i added a gallery menu where you can 
> access the different region and style galleries.

The browsing is a lot better now but the there is something strange with the
links. For example on page
http://earth.imagico.de/gallery.php?site=greece&category=region
third image is named "Greece 2" but it has greece3 in url. I understand that
id is unrelated to label, so ok. But I would expect the link below image to
link to the same place as image. And if there is more in the region than add
another link like: 

     [ IMAGE ]       - view.php?site=greece3
     <Greece 2>      - view.php?site=greece3
  <related places>   - gallery.php?site=greece3&category=region

But it could be just nitpicking to this great site.

ABX

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ABX wrote:
> 
> The browsing is a lot better now but the there is something strange with the
> links. For example on page
> http://earth.imagico.de/gallery.php?site=greece&category=region
> third image is named "Greece 2" but it has greece3 in url. I understand that
> id is unrelated to label, so ok. But I would expect the link below image to
> link to the same place as image. And if there is more in the region than add
> another link like: 

It is as the text above says:

Click on the images to show these views, click on the links below to 
show this same gallery for them.

I see this might not be straight away to understand but i wanted to keep 
the amount of text below the images short.

Christoph

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"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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> Bob Hughes wrote:
>
>> Left a comment for the Mt. St. Helens view to see if that works okay.
>
> You sure this worked?  I have no comment from you in the database yet.

It's there alright. Just takes time, probably. I did see the message saying 
it was awaiting approval, before I left the page, too, so that worked okay.
Good to see it doesn't seem overly commented, I tried to keep it short and 
edited out a sentence when I realized I was beginning to tell a longer story 
than needed to be. Didn't want to fill up your page there too soon. :)

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Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> It's there alright. Just takes time, probably. I did see the message saying 
> it was awaiting approval, before I left the page, too, so that worked okay.

Well - i actually had to reconstruct it - the special characters were 
not correctly replaced so the database command got messed up.

> Good to see it doesn't seem overly commented, I tried to keep it short and 
> edited out a sentence when I realized I was beginning to tell a longer story 
> than needed to be. Didn't want to fill up your page there too soon. :)

Don't worry about that - the number of comments is restricted to 5 - the 
rest gets displayed on a separate page.

Christoph

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Willem wrote:
> 
> "Sehr schoen" Well done.

Danke.

> 
> Did you increase the RAM of your machine to get decent handling times ?
> 

Not recently but indeed memory requirements are relatively high - 
usually about 1.5 to 2 GB.  This is however much less than you would 
need for a mesh based render.

Christoph

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ingo nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 14/03/2006 12:16:
> in news:4416f70c$1@news.povray.org Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am happy to announce the opening of a new website showing realistic 
>>Earth surface renders made by me with POV-Ray:
>>
>>http://earth.imagico.de/
> 
> 
> Excellent!!
> 
> The little earthmap on the top right side makes me wanna click on it to go 
> to a new location ;)
>  
> 
>>(i did quite some testing if everything works and looks all right in 
>>various browsers.  If you find something not working correctly i would 
>>like to know it of course).
> 
> 
> The random option does not seem to work right (from a users perspective, 
> it may be what you intended though). The first time it's random, when you 
> go back to home and try it again you get the same result.
> 
> Ingo
The random works very well for me. Maybe you reload the page from your cache.

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> I am happy to announce the opening of a new website showing realistic
> Earth surface renders made by me with POV-Ray:
>
> http://earth.imagico.de/
>
> (i did quite some testing if everything works and looks all right in
> various browsers.  If you find something not working correctly i would
> like to know it of course).
>
> Christoph

WOW!  These are absolutely .. uhm....

[EagleSun spins a wheel that contains a bunch of adjectives on it, after a
quick spin, it slows down and finally stops on the word "phenomenal".]

These are absolutely PHENOMENAL!

I'm excited seeing these images, and there's one in particular that I'm
looking at... the Himalayas.  You had to have gotten some Blue Marble data
(right?).  And I've been working on these kinds of renders too... and I
also experimented rendering Himalaya scenes... though I have limited my
testing to smaller maps.

How did you do the atmospheres?  I find the atmosphere to be the most
difficult, and I suspect POV-Ray is not good at rendering atmospheric
half-heights... after years (yeah I know that's too long) of tweaking and
researching atmospheric properties, I still don't think I'm there yet.
When I try to make it thick enough to show fading in lower altitudes and
clear in higher altitudes (like in Himalayas), I get white-outs.  When I
try to reduce white-outs, I get atmosphere that's too thin.  When I use
"sphere" formula, it's just not realistic (in fact it's wrong).  When I try
something that seems right, my cutoff into space is cut off too soon, so you
see a harsh boundary between atmosphere and space.... my list of
difficulties go on.

And that's why I appreciate seeing your pictures.

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