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2 Aug 2024 12:19:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Displacement mapping in Povray  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 28 Oct 2004 10:05:01
Message: <clqu1u$678$1@chho.imagico.de>
Warp wrote:
> 
>>First, it is available really from Isosurface, already.
> 
> 
>   No, it's not.
> 
>   You can get a displacement effect by modifying the function from which
> the isosurface is calculated. However, that's not "displacement mapping",
> which is a completely different technique.

That depends on how you define displacement mapping.  If you say it is 
"displacing the surface of a shape by an amount defined by an image or 
function" this is well possible with isosurfaces.

Christoph

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