Hi(gh)!

...and thus, most likely no POVghanistan!

The reason: the data structure in the ASCII elevation data tiles 
generated with 3DEM from the original ASTER GeoTIFFs is too 
unpredictable to reliably generate anything from them using POV-Ray!
Values ending in .00 are intermingled with those ending in .0 or being 
real decimal fractures, they are mostly separated by one space, but 
sometimes also two... no combination of sed commands I ever tried 
produced a POV-Ray-processible file! Some tiles work, while others won't...

I could give C++ a try, but even then it would be next to impossible for 
me to take all peculiarities of the ASCII tiles into account... 
POVghanistan will forever be limited to a classic heightfield containing 
Kabul and a small portion of its surroundings I started pixeling 
manually from that Russian topographic map in 2004. OpenCologne will 
never come into existence unless I find a really powerful contour line 
interpolation tool.

It just HURTS to give up some many dreams, from travelling to real 
Afghanistan, growing my hair to waist length, making a living as a 
professional programmer and now building Khyberspace...

See you in Khyberspace, perhaps in another world and time...

Yadgar

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