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Beautiful accident

Post #1by chris » 02.08.2006, 16:18

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:

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Personally, I think it looks a bit Venusian.

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Post #2by PlutonianEmpire » 02.08.2006, 18:18

8O

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

Very pretty :)
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Post #3by Malenfant » 02.08.2006, 21:48

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 ;).
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Post #4by ajtribick » 02.08.2006, 22:40

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?

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Post #5by Malenfant » 03.08.2006, 00:01

BTW, Chris - will you be able to get an "opposition surge" effect at zero phase angle once all this is up and running?
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Post #6by MADISON » 18.01.2007, 05:29

Sometimes it do happen.

The Picture indeed look awesome and Pretty .

LOL :lol:

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Re: Beautiful accident

Post #7by steven75 » 12.07.2008, 07:26

Very nice picture!!!
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