I would love to see that feature (cylindrical and spherical
heightfields) added to POV-ray. As you know, you can already do this
with Polyray, but I'm not experienced with Polyray (or TmPov for that
matter).

If you write some 3.1 code I'd sure appreciate you letting me know. 
I'll even compile and test your code if you'd like.

Kevin Odhner
jko### [at] homecom
 
Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> Peter Popov wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way you can code this using 3.1's file functions?
> 
> I would like to do so, but the 3.1 file read function requires a comma
> delimited ascii file with strings quote delimited.  AFAIK, there is no
> binary read.  I may have a trick to get around that.  I am experimenting
> now.  If not, I will have to write a little preprocessor to feed such a
> file to 3.1.  Or maybe Tmpov for 3.1 will come on line before I
> succeed.  Perhaps the POV-Team will even add a binary read, although I
> wouldn't hold my breath.  One way or another, I intend to make it
> happen.  If for no other reason, 3.1 macros will make my code much
> cleaner.
> 
> Jerry Anning
> cle### [at] dholcom

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