POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Landscape generation : Re: Landscape generation Server Time
8 Aug 2024 04:06:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Landscape generation  
From: Andreas Koch
Date: 5 Jun 2001 11:16:16
Message: <3B1CF66D.A163200F@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Tom Melly schrieb:

> A better approach is to use an iso-surface, which can generate a surface based on a
> mathematical function, or combination of functions. For example, the scene
> http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2001-04-30/tmfort.jpg uses a single isosurface
for
> the mountains and the plain.

Woooooowwwww, *GREAT* stuff!
Looks like exactly what i need. 

> To use isosurfaces, you will need megapov (http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm), a
> modified version of POV. Isosurfaces will be included in the next official release
of
> POV.

I guess i'll download it... or when is the nex official release
sceduled?


-- 
                                              Andreas
Seeing Dune worms, i don't want to see the Dune BIRDS...


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