Re: [Celestia-developers] Proposition for new FOV handling

[Chris L. <cl...@ww...>]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Fridger Schrempp wrote:

> Christophe Teyssier wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > With the new atmosphere on Jupiter I experience a new kind of hole in the sky
> > bug.
> > 
> > Here is a sunset on Jupiter:
> > cel://Follow/Sol:Jupiter/2003-06-02T18:49:23.53834?x=MBc3Y7Z9KIh6DA&y=o4YpZ7plD0oB&z=VUsL3Mi+w6HM/////////w&ow=0.302330&ox=-0.620313&oy=0.666904&oz=0.281154&select=Sol:Jupiter&fov=34.611065&ts=1.000000&rf=4&lm=-1073747688&ltd=0&rf=57239&lm=0
> > 
> > Screenshot:
> > http://teyssier.nerim.net/hole.png
> > 
> > --
> > Christophe
> > 
> 
> As I wrote already earlier, I see a number of atmosphere artifacts, after
> Chris' new code has been committed. 
> 
> a) Flickering triangles in Jupiter's atmosphere.
> 
> b) At FoV <10" in my mutual Pluto-Charon events, the shadow of Charon is
> correctly projected onto Pluto, but Charon /flips/ forth and back in front of 
> and behind Pluto's disk. When I increase the FoV to 30", say, everything is
> fine and stable.

Strange, but I have an idea about what may be going wrong.  This problem 
occurs independent of whether atmospheres are enabled, correct?

> c) further effects I have reported (milky way and planets at /daylight/ on
> earth...)  and have no idea whether Chris has done something about them...

Not yet, but I'll look at all of these issues tonight . . .

--Chiris