Beautiful accident

[chris]

Sometimes bugs in graphics code can produce some pretty results . . . Here's an image of Earth that's the result of an atmospheric scattering simulation gone awry:



Personally, I think it looks a bit Venusian.

--Chris

[PlutonianEmpire]

It's a prophecy of what's to come! lol

Very pretty

[Malenfant]

It's funny, but that's still probably a more realistic rendition of a crescent planet (not the Earth, perhaps) than anything Celestia's shown so far .

[ajtribick]

Would a real atmosphere (not necessarily Earths) show the reddening at the horns of the crescent, or is that just an artifact caused by the program going wrong?

[Malenfant]

BTW, Chris - will you be able to get an "opposition surge" effect at zero phase angle once all this is up and running?

[MADISON]

Sometimes it do happen.

The Picture indeed look awesome and Pretty .

LOL

[steven75]

Very nice picture!!!