I've found this:
http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/pcm.html

impressive!

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To answer your question: No. POV-Ray can not displace your objects easily
and on-the-fly. You have 2 options:

(1) Make an isosurface. In many cases you can displace it nicely, and memory
usage is very low. But it's not for imported meshes, so you're lost in case
with the dinosaur. You could transfer the object you want to displace to a
DF3 file, then isosurfaces can handle it, but then the memory usage would go
op. Rendering isosurfaces are also rather slow, compared to solution 2:

(2) Import a mesh that is already displaced. This renders quickly. The only
drawback is the memory usage, that is easily huge.

Regards,
Hugo

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> (1) Make an isosurface. In many cases you can displace it nicely, and
memory
> usage is very low. But it's not for imported meshes, so you're lost in
case
> with the dinosaur. You could transfer the object you want to displace to a
> DF3 file, then isosurfaces can handle it, but then the memory usage would
go
> op. Rendering isosurfaces are also rather slow, compared to solution 2:

Thanks!
What's DF3 file??

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Oops.
I've try DF3 here!
http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/195/#s06_07_11_11


Sorry for stupid question :-(

Ciao,

              Manuel

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> I've try DF3 here!
> http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/195/#s06_07_11_11

Yes, and you may also want to see the recent post in the images group, from
Tor Olav Kristensen, named "fast preview for complex isosurfaces - 2
attachments".

Regards,
Hugo

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