Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 
> 
> Alessandro Coppo wrote:
>> 
>> It came to me that displacement mapping is almost like isosurfaces. For
>> example, a displacement mapped sphere is an isosurface described by
>> a sphere + displacement function. So I would not call it impossible (or
>> only for meshes) but "just" computationally heavy.
>> 
> 
> I just want to mention that this is not really true, 'displacement' with
> isosurfaces works much different than with meshes.  For example in your
> sphere sample you can get separate surface parts with an isosurface while
> this is impossible with displacement mapping.
> 
> Christoph
> 

I was just pointing out a way to handle the problem with objects defined not
by meshes but by some mathematical properties (x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = r)

Bye!!!

B.T.W. displacement mapping is NOT the most important subject for pov4....
there are other more pressing needs.

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