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29 Jul 2024 12:19:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isosurface terrains...  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 8 Mar 2002 16:48:12
Message: <3C89319C.FE72C239@gmx.de>
_Light_Beam_ wrote:
> 
> Can you tell me how to "simply" make a isosurface using an image_map to make
> a terrain (kind of iso-heighfield !!!) do you know what I men ? tell me
> YES...   ;-)

Have a look at 

http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/isotut/patterns.htm

and the 'landscape.pov' demo scene from POV-Ray 3.5 for examples.

If you use an image_map just make sure you use 'interpolate 2' to avoid
problems with infinite gradient.


Christoph

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