Anyone know where I can get geographic or elevation data in a form that would
enable me to use it to render a relief map of Australia in POV-Ray ?

-- Chris

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POV-Ray Newsadmin schrieb:
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> Anyone know where I can get geographic or elevation data in a form that would
> enable me to use it to render a relief map of Australia in POV-Ray ?
> 
> -- Chris

http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

The single Data-Packages are quite Large (3-30 MB)
You will need a Conversion-Program to make them POV-Readable

--
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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POV-Ray Newsadmin wrote:
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> Anyone know where I can get geographic or elevation data in a form that would
> enable me to use it to render a relief map of Australia in POV-Ray ?
> 
> -- Chris

Hi Chris,

Ken posted this link a few months ago:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html

You probably know this stuff but I post it anyway:

http://members.tripod.com/~patrickbass/how2DEM.htm
http://www.monumental.com/rshorne/3dem.html

All the Best,

Marc

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Marc Schimmler

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Marc Schimmler <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:

>POV-Ray Newsadmin wrote:
>> 
>> Anyone know where I can get geographic or elevation data in a form that would
>> enable me to use it to render a relief map of Australia in POV-Ray ?
>> 
>> -- Chris
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>Ken posted this link a few months ago:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1658/earth.html
>
>You probably know this stuff but I post it anyway:
>
>http://members.tripod.com/~patrickbass/how2DEM.htm
>http://www.monumental.com/rshorne/3dem.html

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately dem2pov crashes with a floating-point
exception on every platform I tried it on using the dems (e.g. E100S10)
I grabbed. I even tried the Linux version ;(. Works fine with the demo
kirkland .DEM file.

I suppose it doesn't like something about those particular files. I'll
have to take some time some day and debug it.

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You're right.  Even 3dem doesn't recognise them.

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