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  Re: height_field smooth black spots problem - 1 attachment  
From: Marc Jacquier
Date: 11 Dec 2004 12:52:52
Message: <41bb33f4$1@news.povray.org>

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>
> "Alain" <aze### [at] qwertygov> wrote in message
> news:41bb0410@news.povray.org...
> > hf_grey_16 is good for generating the hight field image, not for using
it.
> > It enable you to have 65536 hight values instead of only 256.
> >
> > Alain
>
> Oh, my mistake then. I took it that he was generating a height_field. Of
> course, I was always chastised for making height_field generation harder
> than it should be.
>
> - Grim
>
>
It is a pov feature which allow you to render a grayscale image starting
from a procedural pigment.
see pov doc 6.11.4 (hint: a most important word in the 1st paragraph is
"other") :-)

Marc


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