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16 Aug 2024 12:20:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: the power of crackle  
From: Rune
Date: 10 Mar 2002 18:14:04
Message: <3c8be8bc@news.povray.org>
"Josh English" wrote:
> You might be able to speed things up by using a hightfield
> with a pigment function. They render fairly fast.

That won't work well. Completely and almost completely vertical surfaces in
height fields look horrible. And no, it won't help much using a higher
resolution for the height field.

Rune
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