POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Bitmaps for heightfields : Re: Bitmaps for heightfields Server Time
6 Aug 2024 08:11:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bitmaps for heightfields  
From: Timothy R  Cook
Date: 26 Apr 2002 15:41:52
Message: <3CC9AD7F.FA412897@bellsouth.net>
Alastair Murray wrote:
> The only reason to draw it by hand is it's so much easier to
> have my hills and lake where I want them.

How to get really high-quality heightfields:  don't use greyscale.
Use colour.  Your lowest elevation is still &H000000 and
highest is still &HFFFFFF, but you can step through all 
16777215 values and have a much smoother heightfield.

Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> See crater.pov on the sexample scenes.

Your Freudian slip is showing.


-- 
Tim Cook
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/lig/z/9/z993126

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