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17 Aug 2024 18:17:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Problem with smooth heightfield  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 10 Oct 2001 17:32:57
Message: <3BC4BE89.81EE0305@gmx.de>
JRG wrote:
> 
> I lost you here... I know NOTHING about programming and similia so forgive
> me if I say something silly: I always thought to h-f  utilities as image
> processors which, through a series of fractal (or not) algorithms, alter (or
> create from scratch) a bitmap in order to get a grayscale image usable in
> POV. Once you apply a filter, you've got a new bitmap ready for other
> filtering processes. No matter how many times you apply one or more filters,
> every time the h-f utility treats the bitmap as if *it were the first time
> it saw it*. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
> 

That's the theory, but since it is an interactive program, there are
things done after the steps (like displaying the changed bitmap) and
somewhere there must be the problem...

Christoph

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