EVE General Discussion

…which leads us back to the point about how you chose poorly when picking an article that was about perceived brightness. Oh, and as the article points out, there's nothing really anecdotal about what the Sun looks like from other parts of space since we can trivially simulate it on earth.

The other point is that, yes, you've been very fuzzy about the concept of “brightness”, which can describe almost any of the photo- and radiometric measurements.

…and elsewhere. And no, the energy transfer through a long and cumbersome mix of conduction, convection and radiation within the Sun is pretty significantly different from how light is being diffused by the glass of a light bulb. There's a reason why sunlight has a colour temperature of 5500:ish °K rather than several million: because the light we see is produced very close to the surface (the layers below being pretty much completely opaque) through significantly different mechanisms than what's going on in the core.

Either way, the point was that a diffuse light source and a point source produces light of radically different qualities.

Not unless you put out more light, no, but the light source appears less harsh to look at.

does it suck being so incredibly wrong and not being able to admit it? i admit my mistakes. now its your turn. can we see on pluto gogela?

There is no light in space lol. You people watch to many movies

You can see light because its bounce of a object in space moon dust particles rock and son and so on.

THe Hubble telescope show you nice pictures right? But that's because it "traps the light between it"

So you want space. Its possible just make everything black and your done. (even black is no light but it is light)

I love EvE, because unlike the other MMOs there's always some gold nuggets to learn like this. Even on GD.

Johan, if there was no light in space there would be nothing to bounce off of an object.

Yes, light needs something to bounce off to be visible unless you are looking directly at the source, but that isn't the same thing as there being no light in space. Fortunately space is chock full of things for light to bounce off, as well as light sources.

If they did that, you wouldn't be able to see much of anything, because there would be insufficient light.

edit: i see someone else mentions this! sorry for reiterating!

not only was it mentioned but the general consensus was achieved that distances under 250AU are actually quite bright when using our sun as a model.

I found this nice comparison chart of illuminance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight#Daylight_intensity_in_different_conditions

The Pluto brightness math works out to ~60 lux (using the article's 250x measure in his actual calculations). On that chart, total overcast at dusk is the closest comparison. This link provides some really nice daylight condition comparisons for those who want more than just words (check the Dusk category, last picture in that section). http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light03.htm. Definitely brighter than I would have thought.

The better question is: why don't planets orbit the sun, moons orbit the planets, and both rotate on their axes. Let's not forget the POCOs, which are also supposed to orbit.

Hey for some reason you guys like blinding people with your overbright sun blooms, and retina searing gas clouds in certain missions. Is that science?

Or how about new mandatory jump gate graphics that cause nausea in many players. Is that a "science" experiment?

What would be wrong with toning down some of the sensory overload graphics currently in the game?