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1 Aug 2024 12:23:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: heightfield + f_ridged_mf  
From: Gert  Van den Eynde
Date: 20 Oct 2005 05:45:06
Message: <43576722@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:

> If your height field is 1e8x1e8 units wide and only 20 units tall, then
> you'll have to have a huge resolution (around the scale of 1e8 by 1e8) to
> get bumps at a small scale. You don't want a height field at that
> resolution; you don't have the memory for it.

thanks. realised that now. I've used a reasonably sized HF with an
underlying plane for the far away regions... 

bye,
gert


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