Wow! What a treasure trove of POV-ray people!  I have spent the last
hour going over hundreds of messages.  I still haven't found an answer
to what you may call a very simple problem.

I want to create reefs for an underwater scene.  It seemed logical to
use a height_field so I created a bitmap image to use as my height_field
but POV-ray will not recognize the file type.  I can't find a bitmap to
targa converter.  Am I approaching this all wrong?

height_field {
sys  "reef.bmp"
   pigment {White}
   smooth
   translate <-.5, -1, 0>
   water_level .5
}

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