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On 9/19/2018 7:47 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 19.09.2018 um 13:22 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> Another question: The bitmap is long in the horizontal direction, but I
>> don't know which end is supposed to be closer to the axis and which is
>> supposed to be toward the outside of the ring. Any ideas?
>
> Left side of the image is the planet side.
>
> Another question to be figured out is, what are the proper distances
> from Saturn's center to the inner and outer border of the image?
>
> My guesstimation - judging from
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn - is that the image is
> supposed to represent the range from the start of the D ring (left side,
> 66,900 km from Saturn's center) to the F ring (right side, ~140,220 km).
>
> Alternatively, the image may be supposed to start at the planet's
> equatorial surface, 60,268 km from the center.
>
I emailed the owner of that site but haven't gotten a response yet.
Mike
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On 9/19/2018 4:55 AM, Le Forgeron wrote:
> Le 19/09/2018 à 10:26, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>> There is a texture here for Saturn's ring:
>>
>> https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/
>>
>> How do I apply this texture to a POV-Ray disc? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Mike
>
> On my light side, I have uv-mapping of disc in hgpovray38, so that
> should be trivial. (probably only a problem of orienting the texture
> correctly in regard to UV axes)
>
> On the official side, it might be a situation for the warp cylindrical.
>
> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Warp
>
> The dist_exp should probably be 0, as distance from the axis should be
> ignored.
>
>
>
>
The cylindrical warp is not having the desire effect. See the attachment.
Mike
pigment
{
image_map
{
png "2k_saturn_ring_alpha.png"
map_type 0
}
warp
{
cylindrical
orientation y
dist_exp 0
}
}
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Disregard. I got it working.
Mike
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Le 18-09-22 à 15:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
> Disregard. I got it working.
>
> Mike
Let me guess : You rotated the image 90°
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Le 22/09/2018 à 21:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
> Disregard. I got it working.
>
> Mike
I hope you rotated the texture in the correct direction.
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On 23/09/2018 09:16, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 22/09/2018 à 21:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>> Disregard. I got it working.
>>
>> Mike
>
> I hope you rotated the texture in the correct direction.
>
>
LOL
Have you been told that you are cruel, recently?
--
Regards
Stephen
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Le 23/09/2018 à 10:39, Stephen a écrit :
> On 23/09/2018 09:16, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 22/09/2018 à 21:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>>> Disregard. I got it working.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> I hope you rotated the texture in the correct direction.
>>
>>
>
> LOL
> Have you been told that you are cruel, recently?
>
>
I could serve my question to myself, guess what occurred on first try ?
And we get no final picture from Mike, so I felt frustrated.
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On 23/09/2018 12:11, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 23/09/2018 à 10:39, Stephen a écrit :
>> On 23/09/2018 09:16, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>> Le 22/09/2018 à 21:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>>>> Disregard. I got it working.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>
>>> I hope you rotated the texture in the correct direction.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> LOL
>> Have you been told that you are cruel, recently?
>>
>>
>
> I could serve my question to myself, guess what occurred on first try ?
>
It worked first time? ;)
> And we get no final picture from Mike, so I felt frustrated.
>
An image is worth a thousand words. :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Am 23.09.2018 um 13:11 schrieb Le_Forgeron:
> And we get no final picture from Mike, so I felt frustrated.
Final picture? What is that? ;)
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On 9/23/2018 8:16 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 23/09/2018 12:11, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 23/09/2018 à 10:39, Stephen a écrit :
>>> On 23/09/2018 09:16, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>>> Le 22/09/2018 à 21:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>>>>> Disregard. I got it working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> I hope you rotated the texture in the correct direction.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> LOL
>>> Have you been told that you are cruel, recently?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I could serve my question to myself, guess what occurred on first try ?
>>
>
> It worked first time? ;)
>
>
>> And we get no final picture from Mike, so I felt frustrated.
>>
>
> An image is worth a thousand words. :)
>
I did that thing, that made that other thing work.
Sorry my computer is too slow to post a picture.
Mike
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