POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 3D-Scan : Re: 3D-Scan Server Time
13 Aug 2024 23:16:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3D-Scan  
From: Hans-Detlev Fink
Date: 20 May 1998 04:31:26
Message: <356294DD.6C81@pecos.n.o-s.p.a.m.de>
Mike Weber wrote:
> 
> Why not use a 2D photo and use it as a heightfield??
> 
> Mike

'Cause the brightness in a photograph is not proportional
to the 'height' at that point. And vice versa: That's why
real heightfields of, say, faces actually don't look very
realistic.

-Hans- 


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