POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : HF Erosion : Re: HF Erosion Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:24:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: HF Erosion  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 25 Jul 2000 13:55:21
Message: <397DD493.909A1DC0@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Chris Huff wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> *Lots* of ram...since a 3df file is simply 256-bit grayscale, you would
> need separate 3df files to specify those other variables. And to get a
> large landscape, you would need a fairly high-res landscape file(the
> others, like erodability maps, could be much lower resolution).
> A 256*64*256 file would equal 4MB...3df doesn't have any compression.
> And 512*128*512 would be 32MB. Good thing interpolation is available. :-)
> 

All that is not really effective, because you have to carry the whole "air"
around that is never used.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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