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12 Apr 2025 16:16:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bicubic patch editor  
From: gulino
Date: 31 Mar 2025 11:15:00
Message: <web.67eab16e41fe044264ac0beab67afd2@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "gulino" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I would think that a heightfield would be perfectly fine for that.
>
> You can model anything from a perfectly flat plane to a very rough mountainous
> terrain with a detailed enough heightfield.
>
> But if you want to do the Bezier patches - that's a topic we can get into in
> more detail.
>
> - BW

Then there is no reason to use patches. Can you help me how to do it with
heightfield?


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