POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : New Idea for Height Fields : Re: New Idea for Height Fields Server Time
9 Aug 2024 19:42:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New Idea for Height Fields  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 16 May 2000 18:52:51
Message: <3921d143@news.povray.org>
"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message news:3921C966.1F832996@pacbell.net...
{ 
{ Steven Jones wrote:
{ > 
{ > I just had a real brainwave!  Normally height fields by definition don't
{ > allow overhangs.  I realised you could work around this by STACKING height
{ > fields.  You have a main height field and then a height field on top for the
{ > underside of any overhangs and then a third hf on top of that for the top of
{ > the overhangs.
{ 
{ Old idea but a good reminder.

Yep, but that doesn't mean it didn't cause you a nice brainwave  ;-)
(brainstorm, people usually call that)
Here's something similar:
 http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/caves_in_povray.htm

Bob


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