You have overlooked the necessary components of 3D rendering....that ball is not modelling the surface properties of the moon in any way. And the sun is not emitting enough light and if they apply directional light as opposed to point light....
It's complexity that has been overlooked...your model is broken and simple. No matter your intentions, this is a bad....bad...example.
Download Blender....spend 10 hours learning some basics...and come back ..
Do I have to explain to you that sun does not rise behind the moon? Nor is it behind the moon at night.
Can you explain why every search engine returns composites for the terms "moon sunrise", while the moon is often visible during the day, making this a commonly photographed phenomenon?"
I'm not going to call myself a great artist or anything but here's a simplified diagram of how your perspective relative to the moon changes how much of the reflection you can see. https://imgur.com/a/hkWd2MG
Obviously looking at it from different angles is how you see full, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4 reflections on a sphere. This should inform your perspective of how you see the moon at different positions in it's revolution around the earth. Not sure why the Earth's rotation or your position relative to the equator would have anything to do with it.
Sorry, but your model is fundamentally wrong.
You have overlooked the necessary components of 3D rendering....that ball is not modelling the surface properties of the moon in any way. And the sun is not emitting enough light and if they apply directional light as opposed to point light....
It's complexity that has been overlooked...your model is broken and simple. No matter your intentions, this is a bad....bad...example.
Download Blender....spend 10 hours learning some basics...and come back ..
Then clearly you can provide an image that gives us a crescent shaped lighting on a sphere.
https://www.google.com/search?q=shpere+rendering&tbm=isch
Take your time. Any image will do.
Here you go. https://imgur.com/a/4Nx5OId
Amazing. Now put the light source in front of the sphere, and not behind it. While accomplish the same effect.
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/17sOxE5QtV/not-reflecting/c/4Z8k2php6We
Do I have to explain to you that sun does not rise behind the moon? Nor is it behind the moon at night.
Can you explain why every search engine returns composites for the terms "moon sunrise", while the moon is often visible during the day, making this a commonly photographed phenomenon?"
I'm not going to call myself a great artist or anything but here's a simplified diagram of how your perspective relative to the moon changes how much of the reflection you can see. https://imgur.com/a/hkWd2MG
Obviously looking at it from different angles is how you see full, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4 reflections on a sphere. This should inform your perspective of how you see the moon at different positions in it's revolution around the earth. Not sure why the Earth's rotation or your position relative to the equator would have anything to do with it.