An important question from my latest blog post:

"It would be nice to have a clean, customizable environment map that gives us that pristine golden-hour light without any real-world interlopers. Is this a realistic goal–or is it just a pie in the sky dream?"

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And here's the hex logo!

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side by side image of a sunset atmospheric environment map with pinkish tones and the resulting 3D rayshader terrain rendering on the right

2/5 #skymodelr implements the Prague (cgg.mff.cuni.cz/publications...) and Hosek (cgg.mff.cuni.cz/projects/Sky...) atmospheric models, which allow you to generate skies with the sun + scattered atmospheric light for any solar angle, down to -4.2 degrees (sun below the horizon) for the Prague model!

Happy Groundhog Day! In honor of the day, here's an infinitely repeating video of a realistic atmospheric simulation showing the shadows the sun casts on February 2nd. (over Monterey Bay, California, because no one would want to go to Punxsutawney, PA right now).

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