First: could you *please* not post in html? tnx

The problem you have, is the same problem I talked about almost a year ago (
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/22627/ ) : POV-Ray doesn't
interpolate very well between height_field normals.

I'm afraid Slime-POV will not be a complete solution to your problem.  It might
look a bit smoother, but Slime-POV too has problems with smooth height_fields,
as can be seen on the image taken frome Slime-POV's website:
http://www.slimeland.com/slimepov/smoothhffinal.jpg : the individual "patches"
are visible.  They wouldn't be visible if you used smooth_triangles.

See attached image: on the left you see a Slime-POV heightfield using
smart_triangulation and smooth 2, on the right you see a mesh of
smooth_triangles, both using a resolution of 40*40.  For some reason I couldn't
create the same shape (function images seem to work completely different than
pattern images in MegaPOV 0.7), but you can still see that smooth height_fields
look "patchy".

So Slime: your Slime-POV certainly is an improvement on the official POV-Ray,
but I'm afraid it's not good enough yet :-/

cu!
--
camera{location-z*3}#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*(C/50)#end#macro L(b,e,k,l)#local C=0
;#while(C<50)sphere{G(b,e),.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1
;#end#end L(y-x,y,x,x+y)L(y,-x-y,x+y,y)L(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)L(-y,y,y+z,x+y)L(0,x+y,
<.5,1,.5>,x)L(0,x-y,<.5,1,.5>,x)               // ZK http://www.povplace.be.tf

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