POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Ringworld : Re: Ringworld Server Time
30 Jul 2024 04:19:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ringworld  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 15 Oct 2013 03:25:00
Message: <web.525ceda9f2e6f38c5b7d07940@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> On 14-10-2013 18:25, posfan12 wrote:
> > I've tweaked the landscape a bit and added two belts of clouds. I'm not
> > sure the two belts make sense on the ringworld. On Earth there is one
> > cloud belt around the equator, and several jet streams I think.
> >
>
> Nice one. I don't think the two belts make any sense on the Ringworld as
> the whole surface is equally illuminated by the sun. There are no
> climate bands.

Maybe not described in the book, but climate bands would be the sort of thing
the engineers might implement anyway, judging by other design choices!


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