"Bonsai" <bon### [at] b0n541net> wrote in message news:3b14a6b0$1@news.povray.org...
> "Nekar Xenos" <j-p### [at] citywalkcoza> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3b13b9bd@news.povray.org...
> > I'd also like to know if it's possible to make smooth mandelbrot
> 'mountains'
> > without height fields.  Mandelbrots always have these sharp edges between
> > levels.
>
> Use a fractal program that does more than 256 gray scales. Then do some
> smoothing in a paint program

That can be a bit tricky to prevent loosing detail where it is needed. What I'm
thinking of is if heightfields would only notice the edges of different colours
or grey scales and then with a spline or bezier algorithm fil in the space
inbetween \. resulting in something that is nicely scaleable.

Nekar

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