POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : height field object of new type : Re: height field object of new type Server Time
9 Aug 2024 13:19:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: height field object of new type  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 28 Aug 2000 09:37:18
Message: <slrn8qkrg9.p0.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:00:38 -0400, matt giwer wrote:
>	It was suggested I use a height field so I had to hack an image file
>format. 
>
>	Why should I or anyone have to hack an image file format? Not having
>stared at the source files I assume all it is doing is extracting the
>above data in the first place. Why not simply a format to read it
>directly? 

There is a format to read it more-or-less directly: PPM format.  On a Unix
box, try `man 5 ppm'

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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