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  Re: Heightfield to isosurface - how to constrain the pigment functiontoa certain coordinate range?  
From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Date: 4 Jul 2013 04:57:13
Message: <51d538e9$1@news.povray.org>
Hi(gh)!

On 04.07.2013 10:38, Thomas de Groot wrote:

> 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?

Probably not, as the heightfield image is projected onto an entire 
sphere already in the very first function... this would only work if I 
used a GIANT heightfield (and by "giant", I mean 3600 x 360 by 3600 x 
180 pixels, which would add up to about 839 GB...)!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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