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  Re: Heightfield to isosurface - how to constrain the pigment functionto a certain coordinate range?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 4 Jul 2013 04:38:10
Message: <51d53472$1@news.povray.org>


> But as ASTER DEMs are 3601 by 3601 data points per square degree and
> probably noone of us is able to handle one single giant DEM of the
> entire Earth at this resolution, I now would like to know whether it is
> possible to constrain the DEM (with my script: heightfield) pigment
> function to a certain range of geographical coordinate (with the Tristan


Just a guess, and I don't know how to do it, but the contained_by{} code 
of the isosurface seems indicated. Probably a box with the geographical 
coordinates transposed into xz coordinates and y determined by your 
intended height?

Thomas


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