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12 Apr 2025 16:12:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bicubic patch editor  
From: gulino
Date: 31 Mar 2025 10:20:00
Message: <web.67eaa3e041fe044264ac0beab67afd2@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "gulino" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Hello, there is a program that can make bicubic patches for Povray?
>
> I guess also the question(s) should be - how many patches do you need to model,
> and what is your goal?  Do you need to interactively model the patches, or do
> you need to have the patches pass through certain points?
>
> Can you use heightfields?
>
> If you can use heightfields or functions, then you can craft the heightfields
> using SDL in POV-Ray itself.
>
> - BW

I want to make a plain like this image, I think heightfields will not work
because it's for mountains. I am not sure how many patches but for sure more
than one. It would be nice if there is a program that for example can make these
and give me the value of the points because it seems very hard doing by hand


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