Hi ,

"H. David Young" <hdf### [at] interchangeubcca> wrote in message
news:4036a07d@news.povray.org...
> This seemed like the easiest way, since I do not have much
> time, but if someone knows how I can make the land look "carved out,"
please
> let me know.  What I want is for the land to be as thick as the supporting
> longitude.  It may be somthing similiar to a height-field or an
isosurface,
> but I can't think of how to do it.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I created a similar globe for my IRTC 'Sea' Entry
(http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2000-08-31/asl.jpg). The land surface is
an isosurface created by wrapping an imagemap around a sphere and was
initially demonstrated by Gilles Tran
(http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/sources09.htm). You can get the
source from http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2000-08-31/asl.zip (without
the land imagemap). There is also a Pov-Ray 3.5 version of the code
(including landmap) in povray.binaries.scene-files (under thread 'Balls
collection take 2 (24k)', posted by Nico on 21/10/03).

Hope it is useful!

Cheers,
Ian

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