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  spherical heightfield  
From: Elias Pschernig
Date: 1 Aug 2001 12:36:35
Message: <3b683013@news.povray.org>
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?

-- 
#macro C(X,Y)cylinder{X*x<X,0,-Y/2>.1}#end#macro U(R,X,Y)intersection{torus{.9
.1}box{-1 0rotate y*R*90}translate<X,0,Y>scale 1-z*.5}#end union{U(0,0,0)U(1,0
,0)U(2,-1,-1)U(1,1,0)U(1,1.5,-3)U(1,2,0)U(3,1,0)U(2,2,0)U(0,3,0)U(3,2,.5)C(.1,
2)C(.8,1)C(.8,-1)C(1.1,1)C(1.9,-1)pigment{rgb 10}rotate x*90translate<-1,0,4>}


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