Colaroid wrote:

> I'm not very good on POVRAY at the minute, but is this sort of thing possible,
> particularly bearing in mind that I need to convert them to first as you
> suggested????

Since you do not seem afraid of a little shell scripting, you
might try to transform your ASCII data into PGM format, see
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgm.html.

I never tried it but it's listed as a supported image
file format in POV-Ray and you should be able to create
a height_field from it.

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