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From: Johannes Dahlstrom
Date: 7 Nov 2002 12:34:09
Message: <3dcaa40f@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

> normdoering <nor### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> Is there a way you could make height fields more flexible?
> 
>   Please see the section 7.13.1.1 of the POV-Ray 3.5 documentation.
> 
>> Don't tell me a height field isn't a wireframe internally...
> 
>   You talked about isosurfaces. Heightfields have nothing to do with that.
> 

Well, height_fields indeed don't have anything to do with isosurfaces, but 
height fields in general do: a function of form y - my_height_func(x,0,z) 
produces one. And of course an isosurface height field is much more 
flexible than a traditional one.


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