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Hi coders,

the shadow of Saturn on its rings is not as smooth as it should be. Is this a known problem ?

(Didn't succeed in getting the image in this message... so : go to the ring shadow and zoom in and you will see what I mean)

Ron

Arcturus wrote:the shadow of Saturn on its rings is not as smooth as it should be. Is this a known problem ?

Take a look here:
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4047

Harald

Hi,

it is not a problem with the position of the shadow on the rings (as far as I can see that's correct), but the projection of the rim of the shadow on the rings is not smooth but ragged (a kind of zig-zag). If only I could find out how to include in this mail the image I made, the problem would become clear immediately... (there is an 'Img' tag in the reply form, but this seems to be intended to be used with a reference to a http:// and not to a file on disk).


Ron
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Arcturus wrote:it is not a problem with the position of the shadow on the rings (as far as I can see that's correct), but the projection of the rim of the shadow on the rings is not smooth but ragged (a kind of zig-zag).

I know what you mean. It is discussed in the mentioned thread.
Read it., it becomes interesting at the third post

Harald