In article <3ee56c92$1@news.povray.org>,
 Lutz-Peter Hooge <lpv### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> Patched version:
> bilinear: 14s (I expected the MingW-Version to be
>                significantly slower then the official...)
> bicubic:  25s
> 
> Seems to be faster (relative to bicubic) than I expected.

About twice as fast as I would have guessed...nice.


> Also no artifacts problem in the patched version :-)

Well, only very faint artifacts. A huge improvement over smoothed height 
fields, but I wonder if those normal discontinuities could be removed...
Are you going to post the code somewhere?

That normalized distance method just doesn't look very effective.

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