Follow-up to Noe's post on height fields.

Attached are two renders of the same 128x128 height fields.
One is a render without any texturing.  The other
uses a background, water, pigment and normals to hide
the blocky-ness of the height field.

Neither one use the smooth keyword.  I really don't think it's
necessary to use it for landscape type images, as you can usually
more effectively disguise any problems with a decent texture.

This island is apparently half-mountain and half-zebra. :)

Aaron

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