In article <web.3d4f2f4bbaf777fe264908380@news.povray.org>,
 "=RAY=" <ray### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> >Does anyone know of any conversion utility that can take one of
> >WorldMachine's 16-bit (or more) output formats (Such as Terragen TER) and
> >convert it to a format that POV-Ray can read (without returning to 8 bits)?
> Sure, somthing like
> 
> height_field{
>   function X_res,Y_res {
>     pattern{
>       image_map{tga "HF.tga"}
>       rotate -90*x
>     }
>   }
>   translate <-,.5,0,-.5>
> }

Not sure what you are suggesting here...the height_field shape can use 
anything an image_map can use, so running the image through a function 
is no help at all. And it looks like you misread "TER" as "TGA".

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