Warp, that is very close to what I want, but I need (well, _need_ is
subjective :-) the contours to be 3-dimensional, like tubes or sphere
sweeps. In my final image, the actual height-field will not be visible.

-paul

p.s. I like the image :-)

Warp wrote:
> 
>   Is this what you call a contour map?
> 
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/contour.jpg
> 
>   I made the image with this code:
> 
> #version Unofficial MegaPov 0.6;
> 
> camera { location <-2,15,-10> look_at 0 angle 35 }
> light_source { <50,200,-100>, 1 }
> 
> isosurface
> { function { y-noise3d(x,y,z) }
>   contained_by { box { <-5,0,-5><5,1,5> } }
>   scale <1,4,1>
>   pigment
>   { gradient y color_map
>     { [0 rgb 0][.1 rgb 0]
>       [.1 rgb <1,.7,.2>][1 rgb <1,.7,.2>]
>     }
>     scale <1,.25,1>
>   }
>   finish { specular .25 }
> }
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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