Lee Brown <lee### [at] prodigynet> wrote...
>
> Using a height_field with the pattern modifier I have a problem when using
> "phase".  The height-field becomes very badly distorted.
>

Lee,

This is not a bug.  What you are seeing is what you should expect.  Please
carefully read the section on "phase" in the POV documentation.  The phase
modifier essentially "rotates" your color_map.  When rotated, the 0.0=0.0
and 1.0=1.0 end up right next to each-other, so they create a discontinuity
in the function.  That discontinuity produces a vertical drop/rise in the
height-field.

If you change your color_map to the following, then things will look more
like what you'd expect.
    color_map {
      [0 rgb 0]
      [.5 rgb 1]
      [1 rgb 0]
    }

-Nathan

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