A new interesting way to use our time....
;-)
Paolo

> "Sylvain" <rem### [at] lapostenet> wrote:
>
> I got the data from somewhere on the net (can't remember where though). A
> great resource for elevation data is the Nasa SRTM data (google for SRTM
or
> go to : ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/)
>
> Once you've obtained the file containing the elevations (a n x m matrix,
> each of the element being an altitude), edit it in a text editor. As the
> file is in binary format, you'll see tons of silly characters. Just add at
> the begining of the file the following lines :
> P5
> 1201 1201
> 65535
> and save the file with extension ".pgm". You'll then have a picture that
you
> can use with POV. 1201 1201 is the size of the matrix, so adapt it to your
> data. 65535 is the max value.
> See also :
> http://www.imagico.de/pov/earth_scene.html
> and
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Ce5n9e0%24dn6%241%40chho.imagico.de%3E/
> where I asked about the same question and Christoph kindly gave his reply.
>
> I hope this has been helpful...
>
> S.
>
>

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