POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : heightfield : Re: heightfield Server Time
7 Aug 2024 17:21:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: heightfield  
From: Dave Dunn
Date: 9 Aug 2001 11:25:08
Message: <3B72AB89.977F3176@aol.com>
> Bill DeWitt was saying something to the effect that...

> >there is a utility,
> >"orbcyl" or something, that can make a mesh from a HF in the shape of a
> >sphere or a cylinder.

Orb-cyl is actually a pair of command line utilities, orb and cyl, written by
John Beale, who also wrote the amazing HF-Lab height field utility. As
indicated, orb displaces a height field onto a sphere, and cyl onto a cylinder.
At the risk of crossing topic lines, here is the URL for John Beale's page:
Synthetic Landscapes.

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