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  Re: Heighfields -are they meshes or 'just' textures?  
From: Warp
Date: 14 Aug 2002 11:10:59
Message: <3d5a7302@news.povray.org>
Marc-Hendrik Bremer <Mar### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> I'm no expert in this field, but IIRC the heightfield-primitive is
> internally represented as a mesh.

  It is internally a mesh, but the same kind of mesh which mesh/mesh2 creates.
Is an optimized one.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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