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  Re: Wrapping Height Fields around a cylinder or sphere  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 27 Mar 2004 11:51:56
Message: <cjameshuff-B47001.11521727032004@news.povray.org>
In article <4065a9b0$1@news.povray.org>,
 "John D. Gwinner" <joh### [at] cornelledu> wrote:

>   In both of these cases, I guess I could use an iso surface, but I'd have
> to figure out the function, and a bigger issue is that I would have very
> long rendering times.  For an animation this would kill me.

Look at the spherical and cylinderical height field macros in 
shapes.inc. For the earth terrain, you will probably want to adapt the 
spherical version to only generate terrain for the area near the camera.

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