POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Re: Best way for 2D to 3D : Re: Best way for 2D to 3D Server Time
5 Nov 2024 05:22:19 EST (-0500)
  Re: Best way for 2D to 3D  
From: Patrick Hagerty
Date: 2 Jun 2002 16:30:46
Message: <3CFA816F.C8E9EBCB@hagware.com>
Oops!  Sorry.

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3CFA5612.885EFA8F@hagware.com> , Patrick Hagerty
> <pat### [at] hagwarecom>  wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a 2d image I've made up and I want to play with it in the 3D
> > environment of POVRAY.
> >
> > What I've done is use a height_field on a png file of the image in a
> > solid color.  This gives me a very blocky shape of the image.  I then
> > use 'intersection' with either a sphere or cylinder to give it rounded
> > edges and use 'scale' to flatten it out slightly in the 'Z' dimension.
> >
> > This has proved a generally workable solution, but is it the best way to
> > go?
> >
> > Your comments are greatly appreciated.
>
> This is the wrong group.  This group is about the POV-Ray cores source code,
> not about using the scene description language.  It is best to ask your
> question in povray.newusers or povray.general .
>
>     Thorsten
>
> Note: Crossposted to povray.newusers .
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich
> e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg
>
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