POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Irregular Bodies : Re: Irregular Bodies Server Time
10 Aug 2024 07:20:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Irregular Bodies  
From: Ken
Date: 3 Feb 2000 03:18:53
Message: <389939E4.13C2F866@pacbell.net>
Mark Wagner wrote:
> 
> Andrea Ryan wrote in message <3898F0FC.74F6B018@global2000.net>...
> >Hello,
> >how can irregular bodies like rocks, Phobos and Deimos be created in
> >POV-Ray?  I have maps of both moons.
> >Brendan Ryan
> 
> If you have the heightfield for a moon/planet/asteroid/whatever, you can use
> an isosurface to directly create a spherical heightfield...

...assuming you are running the patched version of POV-Ray called MegaPov.
This feature is not available in the official version of POV-Ray.

-- 
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