Very useful; exactly what I was hoping for.  Thank you.

David

"Ian Shumsky" <ian### [at] outerarmdemoncouk> wrote in message
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> Hi ,
>
> "H. David Young" <hdf### [at] interchangeubcca> wrote in message
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> > 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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