Chipp Walters was kind enough to send me the base file of a swirling cloud pattern he'd created, and I thought I'd share the end result. I fiddled with the settings a bit, most notably adding a new hurricane shape to the density map and adding a widespread plane of cloud cover. But what I really had fun with in this project was creating the illusion of animation by rendering a few images with differing lighting, then duplicating and sequencing them into a 240-frame video file. Here it is.

Thanks, Chipp!

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Cool function, I hope Chipp make this public some day. About your animation, you are on the right way. Don't stop experiment.

Mazak