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- From: deweeset@ptolemy3.rdrc.rpi.edu (Thomas E. DeWeese)
- Subject: Re: 3D Studio Movie Project
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:40:29 GMT
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- >> Hello all. I'm working on a film project that has a scene were your
- >>viewpoint flies towards and into a galaxy. I'm looking for any type of IPAS
- >>routine or suggestions on how to create a VERY realistic looking galaxy that
- >>is similiar to the Milky Way. Also, another scene has you flying into the
- >>rings of Saturn with all it's composite particles of ice zipping by you.
- >
- >(For low budget SX, hire a famous astronomer, shine lights on his/her face
- >while they stare upwards in awe, and play some high tech music :-)
- Don't forget to have him say "My God, it's full of stars."
-
- Well I think that you will find simply texture mapping the galaxy onto an
- oval would work pretty good. As for the rings. Good luck. If you really
- want to travel through the rings you are in for alot of work.
- Thomas DeWeese
- deweest@rdrc.rpi.edu
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