First, It's nice to have a new POVer. Welcome!! :)

Next, Alain's right in his description of how POV uses 16 bits of an 
image to make a height field.

I don't know about 'image magick'.
I had look for the longest tine to find software that make a 16 bit from 
a 256 color image. I don't remember how many I've loaded then deleted 
because they didn't work. So I wrote my own height field maker and 
converter. You can try my 'Mapper Fix' program at 
(http://leroywhetstone.s5.com/)

The main trouble with any image converter use for height fields is 
noise. That is the converter takes the color of a pixel as the height of 
a location instead of using the index value.

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