Ron Parker wrote in message ...
>On 5 Mar 2002 10:14:11 -0500, Ron Parker wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:59:02 +0200, Vahur Krouverk wrote:
>>> Mark Wagner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a program that will take a heightfield image that I've
>>>> created and turn it into a contour map.  I've found GRASS, but it seems
a
>>>> bit overkill for the job, and it's a 17 MB download.
>>>>
>>> Won't POV-Ray be suitable? if you render heightfield orthographically
>>> from top and create texture map accordingly to height?
>>
>> That technique has a tendency to make fat contour lines where the slope
is
>> gentle.
>
>I had a great thought on this: just use the slope pattern to select a
>suitably narrow or wide gradient pattern!  It'd be ugly code, but it'd
>kinda work.

This looks like the most interesting way of doing this.  Should I happen to
have any spare time in the near future, I'll try it.

--
Mark

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