Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> ZuluNiner wrote:
> 
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Is there a way to wrap a height field around a non-planar surface (say the
> > face of a hemisphere?)
> 
> Not easily, and certainly not with Moray.
> 
> However... leveller (a HF editor) has a feature that lets you do this, and
> exports to DXF, I think.. I don't know if Moray can handle this, but the file
> converter might.

  As far as I know Leveller only supports cylindrical mapping
at this time and has no funtionality for spherical HF mapping.

  The only low cost/free program I know of that offers this is John
Beale's OrbCyl utility which is a stand alone utility designed to
convert a 3D topograpy into a cylindrical or spherical 3d shape
with the attributes of the original topography used. I am fairly
certain that it has support for Pov-Ray but I have not evaluated
the program so cannot say how effective it is.

  OrbCyl can be found at one or both of the links below.

http://www.best.com/~beale/

http://shell3.ba.best.com/~beale/gforge/


Regards,

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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