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From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 7 Nov 2002 23:58:03
Message: <chrishuff-BE755D.23580107112002@netplex.aussie.org>

In article <web.3dcb24884533dc187748f6790@news.povray.org>,
 "normdoering" <nor### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> What was the problem? Was the macro badly written?

No, the algorithm just didn't work very well. I think it used a kind of 
height field approach, maybe multiple height fields, making it 
impossible to represent many kinds of geometry.

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