POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : BUG?: Pattern and Heightfield, Win MegaPov 0.5 : Re: Pattern and Heightfield, Win MegaPov 0.5 Server Time
9 Aug 2024 17:19:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pattern and Heightfield, Win MegaPov 0.5  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 13 Jun 2000 15:54:22
Message: <3946916e@news.povray.org>
"Lee Brown" <lee### [at] prodigynet> wrote in message
news:39457f7c$1@news.povray.org...
| I'm getting some strange results with the Heightfield/Pattern combination
| when used with the phase modifier and would like some comments please.  I've
| included the code in povray.binaries.scene-files under the subject
| heading "Heightfield / Pattern bug".
|
| Basically using phase 0 is OK, but anything else starts to look really bad.
|
| Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
|
| MegaPov 0.5
| Windows
| P2-233
| 96M RAM

I'd have to see the pov script to say anything definite, and even then I'm no
expert.
What occurs to me is that maybe there is turbulence used in that and phase can
really change a pattern that isn't regular to begin with.  Could be anything
though.

Bob


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