In article <3955a560@news.povray.org>, "Bob Hughes" 
<per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:

> Great.  The only thing wrong with all of these is the barren rock --- mud,
> soil, whatever--- look to the ground for such a lush kind of grass  :-)
> instead of a more old-growth sod kind of thing.  Just my inclusion of a
> negative comment as usual.

That could be fixed by applying a grass texture to the ground instead of 
a dirt texture...a simple texture varying between shades of green and 
brown would work. The problem is that lawn grass is more dense and has 
layers of blades of different length in different orientation, and dead 
blades at the bottom...this actually looks much like the grass in the 
area around our ponds(sparse clumps, with dirt/sand in between).

One possible feature for this include: the ability to control the 
density/height of the grass with a pigment. With this, it should be 
possible to control the grass placement precisely with the object 
pattern, or to make "grass faces" by using an image_map.

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