Shalon Wood wrote:

> No, actually, Leveller isn't the best, as it's windows only. Not to
> denigrate the author, but no program designed for use with POVray can
> honestly claim the title 'the best' unless it runs on at *least* a
> significant subset of the systems POVray does.
> Leveller seems nice, and I'd like to see an X version of it, but until
> there is one, 'the best' would have to be one of the command line
> converters that will run on either unix or windows.

I stand corrected -- I should have said the "best on W95".

Command line systems are not the best for Windows, where execution requires
opening a shell and dealing with the terrible W95 implementation of the
command line interface.  And GUI based packages often impede rather than
assist usage on UNIX, where command-line shells are highly developed
and quite convenient.  So there is no single "best" code for all
systems.

But to return to the original question -- many converters exist.
See, for example, dem2pov by John Beale:
http://shell3.ba.best.com/~beale/gforge/


Dan


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I know Dan and K. Tyler have been following, but if you haven't been
following the binaries.images group, I've gotten an initial
implementation of cylindrical and spherical mapping done.  Cylindrical
is pretty clean, the spherical works, but isn't very refined.  

Steve Lavedas

Bret Slivka wrote:
> 
> Hello group.
> 
> I'm working on a 3d model of the planet Earth. I am trying to figure out
> how to take this elevation map, turn it into a heightfield and somehow
> "wrap" this heightfield around a sphere. but i'm a little stumped, so I
> thought I'd tap into the vast knowledge of this collective for guidance.
> I humbly ask for your opinion on this matter.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Bret

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Dan Connelly wrote:
> But to return to the original question -- many converters
> exist.
> See, for example, dem2pov by John Beale:
> http://shell3.ba.best.com/~beale/gforge/

Only sad that this converter doesn't work with this DEM format...but I
haven't found one yet too...so any hints welcome...

 See ya
   Udo

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