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5 Sep 2024 06:20:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: spherical heightfield  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 1 Aug 2001 12:47:14
Message: <3B683300.3D674C59@gmx.de>
Elias Pschernig wrote:
> 
> Is there something like that, maybe in megapov? I'd need something just like
> a heightfield, but not mapped to a plane, but to a sphere. I found there is
> spherical mapping for textures, so I thought maybe there is the same for
> heightfields?
> 

You can use an isosurface (slow) or generate a mesh within the povray code
using eval_pigment() for example.

Christoph

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