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Height Map Gimp and POV-Ray

Published on January 2, 2022 at 7:43 am by LEW

Introduction

A heightmap as used here refers to a graduated colored bitmap that represents terrain height. This sort of file is usable in creating land masses in some 3D graphics programs. In this example, I will be creating a random island like landmass. I will be using Gimp version 2.10 to create the actual image, then importing it into a POV-Ray version 3.7 scene script. (more…)

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