High!

Another Saturnian moon... and, strangely, unlike with spheres, with 
meshes I don't have any gaps or omissions in the rendering, even when 
leaving the scaling factor at 13347! This leads me to the question 
whether there are any convenient "asteroid modeling tools" which export 
mesh2 objects for POV-Ray, so to replace the spheres.

Currently, I use John Beale's HF-Lab, but this works only because I have 
access to pre-made simple cylindrical topographic maps of some asteroids 
and small moons according to NASA elevation data. When creating a purely 
fictitious map, I'll have the problem of getting the its distortion 
towards the poles right, as HF-Lab generates only non-distorted maps...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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