POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Ringworld : Re: Ringworld Server Time
30 Jul 2024 02:17:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ringworld  
From: posfan12
Date: 12 Oct 2013 18:40:01
Message: <web.5259cf41f2e6f38cb9c369c00@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> Looking good imo. Land/sea distribution is much better than the
> randomness in my macro. What K do you use for the sun colour? Around
> 6200 or lower fairly yellow, but indeed may not look as such in space,
> or from the surface. The glare makes it white I suppose.
>
> One question though: are the overall proportions of the system right?
>  From the image I suspect that the Ringworld is much too wide compared
> to its diameter. See attached table.
>
> Thomas

One thing I'd like to know is how many shadow squares are there supposed to be?

If they're supposed to be 2500000 miles long and 13000000 miles from the center
of the sun, then there should be 41 of them assuming they're spaced equally
apart.

Is that right?


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