In article <3da9c46d@news.povray.org>,
 Johannes Dahlstrom <sad### [at] tkukoulufi> wrote:

> Yep. IMHO giving y a non-constant value results usually in much more
> realistic-looking landscape.

Unless you are doing a sheer cliff. ;-)


> Multiplying y with a small enough constant gets rid of most, if not 
> all, floaters, while keeping the overhangs and staying overall 
> "not-height_fieldy" ;). Something like <x,y/4,z> should work fine.

Raising the vertical gradient would work similarly..."y*4 + noise()" 
should be pretty close to "y + noise()/4".

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