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Warp wrote:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscape net> wrote:
>
>>If your heightfield is generated from a function, you can save it to a file
>>during the first frame. Then, you reload it for each subsequent frame. It should
>>be faster then recreating it everytime.
>
> There's no way of storing a heightfield in a file.
Sure you can. You have POV-Ray render the height_field with a gradient
texture running from rgb <0,0,0> to rgb <1,1,1>, with the hf_gray
setting on. The high parts of the height_field are white, and the low
parts are black. The height_field is saved as a picture in the render
output file.
Oddly enough, this is what Alain described.
If the original poster is generating a large height field from a
function or pigment pattern (which I did for a recent IRTC entry), he
can try breaking up the height_field into several smaller sections (of
equal precision, or he'll get cracks between sections), and test them to
see which are on-camera and which aren't.
Regads,
John
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