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7 Aug 2024 03:24:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cratered asteroid - how to improve?  
From: EagleSun
Date: 23 Jun 2006 13:00:01
Message: <web.449c1d324a84f22c841337530@news.povray.org>
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> High!
>
> EagleSun wrote:
>
> > I suggest you find (or render) height data of craters, then apply the image
> > as a map to your iso-ellipsoid.
>
> That would be difficult to achieve... first I would have to find a way
> to generate *realistc* crater heightfields (and the cratering function
> provided by John Beale's HF-Lab does not produce such craters!)... so I
> instead would continue trying it somehow only with isosurfaces!
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
>
> Now playing Don't Go (Yazoo)

Yeah.... which is why I (for me) would hunt around for crater data.  I have
a huge crater data file... of 21 MB.... I would like to send it to you.
However the catch is to find me a site I can upload it to.  The data is
4000 x 4000 16-bit data.


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