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9 Aug 2024 19:37:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New Idea for Height Fields  
From: Pabs
Date: 16 May 2000 22:22:25
Message: <392201B9.23523BA7@hotmail.com>
Steven Jones wrote:

> I just had a real brainwave!  Normally height fields by definition don't
> allow overhangs.  I realised you could work around this by STACKING height
> fields.  You have a main height field and then a height field on top for the
> underside of any overhangs and then a third hf on top of that for the top of
> the overhangs.

Or you could just use isosurfaces


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