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  Re: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 12 Mar 2007 20:01:21
Message: <45f5f7e1$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 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.

There is if an image-based height field parses faster than a 
formula-based one.

Regards,
John


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