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19 Aug 2024 06:21:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sunset? 63kbu  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 5 Jan 2001 04:46:49
Message: <3A55980A.E2374A2F@gmx.de>
David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> If you're delving into MegaPOV, why not go ahead and make the landscape an
> isosurface? Render time will be a lot longer, but it will look a lot better
> because it has no resolution problem.
> 

That's not really true, because you have to specify an accuracy.  The low
values needed for a good foreground would lead to extremely slow rendering
near the horizon.  Splitting up the terrain into several parts is often a
good idea even with isosurfaces.  

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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