"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I've been toying with possible CGSphere submissions. This wasn't my first
> idea, but I was idly playing with planetary textures, and then managed to
> get an exponential media atmosphere working. So I knocked up this view of
> Io. The atmosphere effect is, of course, terribly hollywood and not at all
> physically feasible, but I think it looks quite cool.
>
> Jupiter is the correct distance away relative to Io's size, but I've moved
> it up and along for aesthetic reasons, so Io isn't orbiting Jupiter's
> equator any more. And someone's parked a dirty great black cosmic penknife
> in the foreground.
>
> But I'm not sure if I like it enough to submit it... anybody have any
> suggestions for making it a little more Wow?
>
> Bill

Cosmic penknife? It looks more like a monolith to me 2001-ish.
As a idea for change maybe you could add a grid to suggest a gravity field.


Stephen

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