Gimme a 256x256 grayscale height map image and I'll post back the result.

[Redrobes]

That is possibly the holy grail of 3d modeling for gamers....

Thats exactly what my GeoTerSys is doing except that instead of using fractal calculations to get to a higher res it uses a terrain physics model to do it.

Have a look at this :-
http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/cgi-bin/ge...gory=pic_page6

The little gray image was the exclusive source to generating the top picture. See pic 5 for another.

Maybe I should run a demo and set of WIPs and people can mail in a source image and ill calculate a 'hands free' result based on it.

For any high res terrain you can save a small low res section from it and use that as the source to generate another high res data set. This is how we plan to generate the MeDem from the 20K initial base Dem drawn by hand to the 160K pix square final map. Nobody (even Monks) is mad enough to hand draw that size map.

Gimme a 256x256 grayscale height map image and ill post back the result.