Pretty much everything in our everyday lives reflects light.(haha the irony here being thats what we actually see, is not the objects themselves, but the light/energy bouncing off of it.) And the moon itself reflects quite a bit of it. I can see near perfectly when a full moon is out.
The issue here is you have to understand there are some key differences between something like the sun, and a point light which is what looks like is being used in this 3d scene.
The sun is so big, so bright, so far away, and emits light as a disc, not a point. They do not create the same effects.
REFLECT', verb (Latin reflecto; re and flecto, to bend) aka light (inception towards death) bending (life). The RE in reflect implies oneself as the reacting inflection; curvature; strain; that which is directed to a point within the visible spectrum (momentum) of light (motion).
Often times in the morning, the sun rises to the East while the moon is waxing from above to the South. Clearly, being able to see both, above the horizon, the full face of the moon should be visible, with no crescent shape.
Yet the opposite is true. And there are no computer models that allow for a crescent shape refection off of a sphere.
That only works on reflective surfaces. The moon is not reflective.
Pretty much everything in our everyday lives reflects light.(haha the irony here being thats what we actually see, is not the objects themselves, but the light/energy bouncing off of it.) And the moon itself reflects quite a bit of it. I can see near perfectly when a full moon is out.
The issue here is you have to understand there are some key differences between something like the sun, and a point light which is what looks like is being used in this 3d scene.
The sun is so big, so bright, so far away, and emits light as a disc, not a point. They do not create the same effects.
https://youtu.be/acGMdhJWX2w?t=66
REFLECT', verb (Latin reflecto; re and flecto, to bend) aka light (inception towards death) bending (life). The RE in reflect implies oneself as the reacting inflection; curvature; strain; that which is directed to a point within the visible spectrum (momentum) of light (motion).
Often times in the morning, the sun rises to the East while the moon is waxing from above to the South. Clearly, being able to see both, above the horizon, the full face of the moon should be visible, with no crescent shape.
Yet the opposite is true. And there are no computer models that allow for a crescent shape refection off of a sphere.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52489417/how-to-create-a-concave-convex-circle-illusion-in-opengl
Though, one can be seen in a concave surface.