POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 3D-Scan : Re: 3D-Scan Server Time
14 Aug 2024 05:12:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3D-Scan  
From: Rudy Fleminger
Date: 2 Aug 1998 19:35:24
Message: <35c4e9ac.0@news.povray.org>
You could do that if you painted your faces in layers, highly brightened and 
posturized it, then put it into a smoothed heightfield.

..maybe...

In article <356### [at] pecosno-spamde>, hdf### [at] pecosno-spamde 
wrote:
>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.

-el snippo-


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