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From: stbenge
Subject: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 01:46:52
Message: <4b2730dc@news.povray.org>
Hello,

Here are some example shots from hf_tools.inc, which I just dropped at 
p.b.scene-files.

The top two images show the edge pattern at work. The edge pigment in 
the upper-left image was rendered at less than one third quality; it 
does get better than that :) The upper-right image is using a 
pre-rendered edge map at full quality. The edge radius is adjustable.

The bottom left image shows the superellisoidal pigment encasing a 
height field. It lets you make smooth transitions from height field to 
plane, while keeping more detail at the corners (as opposed to using, 
say a spherical pigment).

The bottom right image shows how an angle map can be used to transform 
textures according to the different angles of a height field.

Just a few features. Maybe they will prove useful...

Sam

P.S. The upper-right image shows some strange behavior at the height 
field's edges. POV-Ray is handling image maps incorrectly, I think.


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 02:43:30
Message: <4b273e22@news.povray.org>

> Just a few features. Maybe they will prove useful...

   I'm without words... really. :O

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

http://www.ignorancia.org


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 03:16:45
Message: <4b2745ed$1@news.povray.org>
"stbenge" <UN### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:4b2730dc@news.povray.org...
> P.S. The upper-right image shows some strange behavior at the height
> field's edges. POV-Ray is handling image maps incorrectly, I think.
>

Well, that is easy for us to cut off in a difference or intersection.... :-)

This is really incredible. I need to experiment with this now!

You rule, Sam! You rule!

Thomas


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 07:12:54
Message: <4b277d46@news.povray.org>
High!

stbenge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here are some example shots from hf_tools.inc, which I just dropped at 
> p.b.scene-files.

Awesome! When I saw the upper right and lower left image, I instantly 
thought "Afghanistan!"... yes, this tool would be great for rugged 
desert landscapes on DM +19 279 e XI (or Ghurghusht, how it is called by 
its colonists). For real Afghanistan, I better rely on actual elevation 
data... but perhaps there might be a way to enrich them with small-scale 
erosion details!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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From: Rick Gutleber
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 10:28:05
Message: <4b27ab05$1@news.povray.org>
Two words:  A Mazing!  ;-)

On 2009-12-15 01:45, stbenge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here are some example shots from hf_tools.inc, which I just dropped at
> p.b.scene-files.
>
> The top two images show the edge pattern at work. The edge pigment in
> the upper-left image was rendered at less than one third quality; it
> does get better than that :) The upper-right image is using a
> pre-rendered edge map at full quality. The edge radius is adjustable.
>
> The bottom left image shows the superellisoidal pigment encasing a
> height field. It lets you make smooth transitions from height field to
> plane, while keeping more detail at the corners (as opposed to using,
> say a spherical pigment).
>
> The bottom right image shows how an angle map can be used to transform
> textures according to the different angles of a height field.
>
> Just a few features. Maybe they will prove useful...
>
> Sam
>
> P.S. The upper-right image shows some strange behavior at the height
> field's edges. POV-Ray is handling image maps incorrectly, I think.


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 12:20:00
Message: <4b27c540@news.povray.org>
Holy grab!


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From: CShake
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 12:21:49
Message: <4b27c5ad$1@news.povray.org>
stbenge wrote:
> The top two images show the edge pattern at work. The edge pigment in 
> the upper-left image was rendered at less than one third quality; it 
> does get better than that :)
> 
> Just a few features. Maybe they will prove useful...

WOW!
That top left one looks like a polycrystalline surface under high 
magnification, it already looks useful!


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 13:46:00
Message: <4b27d968$1@news.povray.org>

> High!

Not yet! Maybe my second cup of coffee will do the trick ;)

> Awesome! When I saw the upper right and lower left image, I instantly 
> thought "Afghanistan!"... yes, this tool would be great for rugged 
> desert landscapes on DM +19 279 e XI (or Ghurghusht, how it is called by 
> its colonists). For real Afghanistan, I better rely on actual elevation 
> data... but perhaps there might be a way to enrich them with small-scale 
> erosion details!

I hope you know that this file _does_not_ produce erosion... That height 
map is an example I included from World Machine :/


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 13:46:33
Message: <4b27d989$1@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

>> Just a few features. Maybe they will prove useful...
> 
>   I'm without words... really. :O

That's the best way to be, at least until you learn the tool's 
limitations ;D


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: hf_tools.inc
Date: 15 Dec 2009 13:53:12
Message: <4b27db18$1@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot wrote:
> "stbenge" <UN### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
> news:4b2730dc@news.povray.org...
>> P.S. The upper-right image shows some strange behavior at the height
>> field's edges. POV-Ray is handling image maps incorrectly, I think.
> 
> Well, that is easy for us to cut off in a difference or intersection.... :-)

Yeah, but it's an annoying way to go about it. You can always use the 
boxed pigment to cut off the edges while building you HF.

> This is really incredible. I need to experiment with this now!
> 
> You rule, Sam! You rule!

After reading Yadgar's reply, I started to worry that everybody thinks 
this file can produce erosion... it cannot... It only does what I said 
it does, plus some near-useless red/green functions that I'm not 
particularly proud of :/


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