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1 May 2024 18:18:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Journey to an Unknown Region - revisited  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 12 Feb 2023 15:20:00
Message: <web.63e949b71f12570d8cc10cbe89db30a9@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> Hi,
> Last December, looking for something else, I cam across my scene from 2009:
>
>
https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C4b1bcc05%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=439213&toff=2250
>
> At the time, Christian Froeshlin suggested towards the end of that
> thread, to use a sub-heightfield to account for better details on the
> foreground. He kindly provided code to achieve this. For some reason, I
> never got around to get acquainted with the code and the project was put
> on hold.
>
> So, I started experimenting and I finally came up with two macros, one
> for "pure" functions, and one for height_field map-based functions
> (which need to be slightly cropped around the edges).
>
> I applied this last macro to my scene, excluded the scattering of rocks
> (I was not happy with those anyway), and took the opportunity to improve
> several awkward coding aspects of the scene, in particular the textures.
> The final result is this.
> ...

Fascinating image!

--
Tor Olav
http://subcube.com
https://github.com/t-o-k


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