Chapter 13. Climate and the Environment

Climate and the Environment
 

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

 
 --Oscar Wilde
 

Yes, yes, let’s talk about the weather.

 
 --W. S. Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance, or the Slave of Duty

Even if you’re not called upon to re-create extreme climate conditions (as someone once pointed out seems to be a theme in my work), even a casual glance out the window demonstrates that the meteorological phenomena are always in play: a breeze is blowing in the trees, or water and particulate in the air are changing the appearance of buildings and the land closest to the horizon.

This chapter offers methods to create natural ...

Get Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.