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

Here's another method that is only a theory:

In POV-Ray use an orthographic camera against a plane and direct lighting,
using a bump pigment pattern,
then create a sereies of images using phasing and other transformations.
This will give you a series of images that you can use for height fields in
an animation, as long as it is possible to open a sequence of files instead
of one file... and for every frame in the final animation you need to have
one hieght field already made up...

something else to play with and distract me from my IRTC entry

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Josh English
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