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19 May 2024 18:17:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tracing the path of streams  
From: Alain
Date: 26 Feb 2017 11:33:07
Message: <58b30343$1@news.povray.org>

> "Kirk Andrews" <kir### [at] tektonartcom> wrote:
>> "omniverse" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has me wondering if erosion could be accomplished via difference {} using
>>> likewise cone+sphere stream/lake creation method.
>>
>> Looks like that was something I was trying out, back in 2008. Looks like I was
>> rendering out a flat image of just the rivers to be subtracted from the height
>> map image.
> Sure does mess with my eyes! I turned it upside down, sideways too, and those
> shadows just wouldn't get right for me.
>
> Maybe I'm seeing it wrong but the tributaries appear to begin or end at the
> lower elevations with pooling water at the higher elevations.
>
> Does give the appearance of eroded ground anyhow regardless of how I see it.
>
>
I see it the same. Water accumulating on/flowing toward the highest parts.


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