POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Earth heightfield, colormaps, etc... : Re: Earth heightfield, colormaps, etc... Server Time
4 Aug 2024 14:26:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Earth heightfield, colormaps, etc...  
From: Xilo Musimene
Date: 14 Apr 2003 23:09:44
Message: <3E9AEAAD.8080400@hotpop.com>
> Well, that's what I did. The format is very straightforward. If you
> download the four sectiosn, each section has several files, but you'll
> only need the DEM file. It has the height data stored in 5400 rows and
> 4800 colums, with 2 bytes for each pixel. Couldn't be simpler (also
> couldn't be more bloated...).
> If you have the four sections you can combine them to one fairly huge
> heightfield - or at least cut out the part you need.

Good, I should get started right away!  Do you think the seperation can 
be seen or is the data perfectly cut?

And is there any more data I could read like coloration? DEM would be 
elevation, I see there are many other files also do you know what they 
are for?

Thanks!
   Xilo


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