What platform are you using? What programming languages do you know?

I haven't had the time to look into it too closely, but I get the
distinct impression that the GIMP would be an excellent tool for
generating height fields, especially if you wanted to be able to script
changes to them.  It a Unix application, though, and I believe the
built-in scripting support is built around Scheme, which is not the
first language most people learn. Still, I should think it would be
easier to learn Scheme than to build a new app from scratch.

Ignore the bit in the Halloween documents about the GIMP being not much
more than Paint.  It doesn't look like much at first glance, but there's
a great deal beneath the surface.

Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> 
> Well, it seems that recently I have enjoyed tackling "challenges" in
> POVRay more than creating scenes.  I'm sure I'll go back to making
> images that do more than demonstrate my code at some point, but I
> recently had a little brainstorm (like 2 minutes ago).  My brainstorm
> involves the object of the day (for those of you who somehow didn't see
> Ken's posts that would be the heightfield) and the idea of controlling
> it more specifically (for instance animating waves?)  I realized that,
> (and maybe I've just missed when people started using this) morphing is
> the answer.  Heighfields are built off of 2D images.  Now it is possible
> to morph a single image with itself, just using control lines.  This is
> the method I would suggest, the question is, are we content with the
> current morphing software, or should I spend some time playing with
> making a util specifically for heightfields?
> 
> Steve

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