== Atmosphere Hack 01 ==

POV-Ray learning exercise. Descent from 80 km into the atmosphere.  1km diameter spherical height markers are made of [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsidaisium | Upsidaisium ]] and held down by chains with 1km pitch.  The land grid is 50km squares.  This needs a better looking but faster atmosphere model.

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This uses [[ http://povray.org/ | POV-Ray ]] and apngasm.   Source files: [[attachment:b08.pov]] [[attachment:b08.ini]]   [[ http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/attachment/<4a02be66%40news.povray.org>/starmap.inc.txt | Star Map ]]