Here's another illustration. Here's a view of Copper Mountain with no attenuation. The skyline peaks show a beautiful crispness, but the middle of the image - around the ski area itself - is a bit ho-hum (click for high res image - ~13.3 Mbytes):
This next example includes the hybrid attenuation. The peaks retain most of their crispness while the valley attenuation increases the realism and enhances the 3d feel of the rest of the image (click for high res - ~12.7 Mbytes):
And if you really what to go wild, here's an example with the lower valleys completely obscured by haze (click for high res image - ~8.8 Mbytes):
When it comes to rugged mountain beauty, few places in America can compare with Telluride, Colorado. It's located along the All-American San Juan Skyway (see, for example, this link.) Here's my shot at a computer rendering showing the Town and the sur
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