Dieter Gaffrey wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at our institute a future item of a diploma thesis
> shall be the use of ray-tracing software
> (i.e.: Povray because every student can
> afford it ;-) ) for scientific, forestry related applications.
> 
[...]
> 
> Therefore, I would be very glad if you can tell me any
> Povray (or other) source which might go in this direction.

The most well known use of Povray for geographic applications is displaying DEMs
with povray's heightfield object which is quite effective for this purpose.  You
can also easily position objects like trees.

Not povray specific, but you might want to have a look at:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/vissim/bibliography/

especially:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/vissim/papers/snowTerrain/

The best povray related sources would probably be heightfield generators and
their documentations/samples.  I have a link collection focussed on synthetic
terrain on my Website, some things might be interesting:

http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/terlinks.html


Christoph

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