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From: Maetes
Subject: Milky Way
Date: 31 Oct 2025 08:05:00
Message: <web.6904a51f406914adb8f85d3b30225ff5@news.povray.org>
I finally finished a Povray package and published it on my website.
It places a photorealistic image of the Milky Way on the Sky-Sphere of Povray.

https://www.maetes.com/en/povray-os/ma_milkyway

The package is ready-to-use and contains all maps up to 16k resolution.
These and 32k maps can be downloaded separately in the download section.

https://www.maetes.com/en/download/

Have fun with it,
Ma


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From: yesbird
Subject: Re: Milky Way
Date: 31 Oct 2025 12:19:31
Message: <6904e193$1@news.povray.org>
On 31/10/2025 15:03, Maetes wrote:
> I finally finished a Povray package and published it on my website.
> It places a photorealistic image of the Milky Way on the Sky-Sphere of Povray.
> ...

Really interesting - it looks like the seed of the future
planetarium project ...

If you will be able to render stereo-pair in spherical projection
(VR360) for VR headset, I will include it in my gallery:
https://yesbird.online/gallery/

This is how to do that with different versions of POV-Ray:
-- HgPovray38 --
https://wiki.povray.org/content/User:Le_Forgeron/HgPovray38

-- Official POV-Ray 3.8 beta --
https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Camera#User_defined_projection
https://www.clodo.it/blog/omnidirectional-stereo-ods-with-pov-ray/
https://paulbourke.net/stereoscopy/pov_odsp/

If you have a limited hardware resources, just make a scene setup and
share it here - I will do rendering on my fast 128-cores server.
--
YB


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From: yesbird
Subject: Re: Milky Way
Date: 31 Oct 2025 14:48:46
Message: <6905048e$1@news.povray.org>
On 31/10/2025 19:19, yesbird wrote:
> On 31/10/2025 15:03, Maetes wrote:
>> I finally finished a Povray package and published it on my website.
>> It places a photorealistic image of the Milky Way on the Sky-Sphere of 
>> Povray.
>> ...
> 
> Really interesting - it looks like the seed of the future
> planetarium project ...

Here is a quick sketch of possible scene implementation:
https://yesbird.online/gallery/?m=deep_space&e=env_space2&r=true

Press <Esc> or <Space> to get back to gallery home.
Use VR headset for best experience.
--
YB


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From: Leroy
Subject: Re: Milky Way
Date: 31 Oct 2025 15:45:00
Message: <web.690510c5f5abcfeb8def9c7f712fc00@news.povray.org>
"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I finally finished a Povray package and published it on my website.
> It places a photorealistic image of the Milky Way on the Sky-Sphere of Povray.
>
> https://www.maetes.com/en/povray-os/ma_milkyway
>
> The package is ready-to-use and contains all maps up to 16k resolution.
> These and 32k maps can be downloaded separately in the download section.
>
> https://www.maetes.com/en/download/
>
> Have fun with it,
> Ma

Great Job! I loaded the 8k and 32k images separately . The 32k images crashed
IrfanView. The 8k images looks great!

Having  fun!


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From: Maetes
Subject: Re: Milky Way
Date: 1 Nov 2025 08:20:00
Message: <web.6905f9e2f5abcfebcc337b7830225ff5@news.povray.org>
"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> Great Job! I loaded the 8k and 32k images separately . The 32k images crashed
> IrfanView. The 8k images looks great!

Thanks.

My Gwenview and 2 other picture-browser crashes also, even if you open a folder
with this big files, not the big file directly.

Nevertheless, povray use the files at least till the RAM is full without
crashing.

So far, I haven't found a way to make a good looking Milky Way without maps.

ma


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