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29 Jul 2024 00:32:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How does povray interpret height fields?  
From: posfan12
Date: 7 Sep 2013 00:15:00
Message: <web.522aa72de77e8fe341a177270@news.povray.org>
Maybe this will help.

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Knowledgebase:High_precision_heightfields

I'm not sure I ever got it to work 100%.



Mike


Ger <ger### [at] NoSpamthankyou> wrote:
> I use an external program to create png files that contain height data.
> The difference between adjacent points is generally very little but as
> povray renders the height fields it shows very large jumps in height.
>
> is it
>
> height of pixel = (R x 256 x 256) + (G * 256) + B?
> --
> Cheers
> Ger


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