"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Did you consider using the "bicubic_patch" object in POV?  Maybe you could 
> find (or write) some code to convert each heightfield cell into a bicubic 
> patch, this would then still look very smooth even if you got very close.
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A program like GeoControl does something like that I think as it has the 
possibility to export the heightfield as an .obj file. The other side of the 
medal however, is that this file is HUGE, a few hundreds of MB for a high 
resolution heightfield. This is very difficult to manage subsequently and I 
am unsure about its render possibilities in terms of memory. I never could 
go beyond the export process... :-(

Thomas

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