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28 Jul 2024 20:20:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What is it? HF checkers  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 8 Jun 1999 11:48:55
Message: <375d3b67@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:19:54 -0500, Bob wrote:
>I was seeing black and white stripes in one view which had 3 levels of height as a
>group, might this be a direct cause and effect due to the pixel sized checkers and
>something inherent to the way a HF is calculated as well? Makes me wonder....

I think it might have been an interference pattern you were seeing.

>The person originally wondering about "smoothing" a HF further would seem correct
then
>about possibly interpolating via spline between the intitial triangle creation and
>producing a further tessalation. 

An interesting idea would be to implement a heightfield as a mesh of bicubic 
patches.  It'd be a memory hog, but it would probably look very good.


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