=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 29.01.20 01:30, Ton wrote:
> > It has been a while, but with Christmas and 2020 and a small holiday there was
> > not much time for Povray.
> > But the train is finished, now I have to put it somewhere, might be my next
> > project.
>
> What about putting the train in its genuine geographic environment? I'm
> currently re-coding Melody's smooth mesh generator to make it run at an
> acceptable speed (90 minutes rather than 200 days for 3601 by 3601
> vertices...), after that, I will start generating 1 square degree Earth
> surface slices (mesh2 terrain reliefs following Earth's curvature) from
> ASTER GeoTIFFs, so you might want to place railway tracks on it... on
> which line did the Edelweiss run?
>
> Let's do POVEarth!
>
> See you in Khyberspace (the Afghan section of POVEarth)!
>
> Yadgar

Hi Yadgar, interesting plan. I have at the moment something completely different
for my train in my mind.
Is your mesh2 detailed enough for this close?

Netherlands shouldn't be too difficult (flat!), but France and Switzerland open
some possibilities.

Cheers
Ton.

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