POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : smooth height_fields : Re: smooth height_fields Server Time
16 Aug 2024 08:10:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: smooth height_fields  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 2 Mar 2002 12:43:32
Message: <3C810F25.C5BBB6B1@gmx.de>
Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> 
> How does POV-Ray smooth height_fields?  The results aren't really good in
> any case.
> At the left is an ordinary smoothed height_field, at the right the same
> shape using smooth_triangles.
> Wouldn't it be possible to use a better way of smoothing height_fields?  As
> it is now, the smooth-keyword in height_fields isn't really useful...

I can't say for sure of course, but those two shapes really don't seem to
have the same geometry to me.  

Christoph

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