> I recently showed some samples of high detail rendering of the earth with
> variable level of detail.  See:
> 
> Subject: rendering the earth (71k+68k)
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:57:55 +0200
> From: Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images
> 
Looks pretty cool!

Did you "request" the data?
("Files denoted by double asterisks (**) are available upon request. 
Please send an email to...")

> You can apply the same method (i.e. rendering a planetary body with an
> isosurface defined by image maps, 
>
Thanks, the isosurface image map sounds promising. 2 bytes per sample 
is just great. Hope it does not take ages...

> using higher resolution data for the foreground part 
>
okay...

> and blending with the lower resolution basis using
> functions) to any other planet.
> 
"blending using functions"... What do you mean by that?

Wolfgang

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