Ok.  I've done the HF in PSP6 and can pretty well guage my results by
looking at the image.  I've heard (read) it mentioned a few times that there
is a way to generate Hfs within POV-ray.  I could really make use of some
sample code because I work best by doing.  If there is some documentation on
this that would help too.

Thanks,

Wil Hale
wil### [at] cal-businesscom
http://www.cal-business.com/wil

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Here's an example of how I do it:

#version unofficial megapov 0.4; // only for reset_children

global_settings { hf_gray_16 }

camera {up y right x location y*10 look_at 0}

plane
{
 y,0
 pigment
 {
  cylindrical scale 3.25 turbulence 1
  pigment_map
  {
   [0 rgb 0]
   [.1 granite color_map {[0 rgb .03][1 rgb .06]} scale .1]
   [.2 granite color_map {[0 rgb .03][1 rgb .10]} scale .1]
   [.3 rgb .1]
   [1 granite scale 3]
  }
  warp {reset_children}
 }
 finish {ambient 1.5 diffuse 0} // should actually be
                                            // 1, but I used 1.5
                                            // to raise everything
                                            // a bit more
}

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TonyB <ben### [at] panamac-comnet> wrote:
:   warp {reset_children}

  Why?

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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In article <38ec93c3@news.povray.org>, "Wil Hale" <whh### [at] nvlarmymil> 
wrote:

> Ok.  I've done the HF in PSP6 and can pretty well guage my results by
> looking at the image.  I've heard (read) it mentioned a few times that 
> there is a way to generate Hfs within POV-ray.  I could really make 
> use of some sample code because I work best by doing.  If there is 
> some documentation on this that would help too.

Do you mean generate a height_field object from an image, or generate 
the actual image in POV-Ray? The object syntax is documented under 
section "2.4.3 Height Field Object" in the manual, along with a way to 
generate the height field image with POV-Ray. Just follow the tutorial, 
sample code is given.

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>  Why?


'Cause I wanted it to in that particular case.

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In MegaPOV is feature that allows you to automatically create
height_field in parsing stage from pov pigment, see docs.

Regards

Disnel

Wil Hale wrote:
> 
> Ok.  I've done the HF in PSP6 and can pretty well guage my results by
> looking at the image.  I've heard (read) it mentioned a few times that there
> is a way to generate Hfs within POV-ray.  I could really make use of some
> sample code because I work best by doing.  If there is some documentation on
> this that would help too.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wil Hale
> wil### [at] cal-businesscom
> http://www.cal-business.com/wil

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What I didn't understand what does it do there. To me it seems that it
does nothing (except being the only thing requiring megapov).

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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