POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation: Re: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation

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From: Warp
Date: 12 Mar 2007 08:08:46
Message: <45f550dd@news.povray.org>

John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> >   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.

  That's not a heightfield, that's an image file. The heightfield will
need to be generated from it. There's no advantage.

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                                                          - Warp

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