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smuuuf YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 18 switzerland	grayscale image to 3d-graphic Dec 9th, 2008, 2:42pm   Hi I'm looking for a way to convert a grayscale image into 3d, so that the white areas are the lowest und the black areas the highest parts. i know it's possible but i can't seem to find anything helpful on the net so far... could someone please help me? thanks!!

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: grayscale image to 3d-graphic Reply #1 - Dec 9th, 2008, 3:18pm   well there's not a lot to actually get. just iterate over the source image and set z value of whatever you're printing that point to the greyscale value of the relevant pixel (which will be in the range 0-255) picture of something i saw recently: http://pixelist.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/moq-mo01.png

smuuuf YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 18 switzerland	Re: grayscale image to 3d-graphic Reply #2 - Dec 9th, 2008, 3:58pm   *lol* okay i didn't think it'd be THAT easy. but that explains why i couldn't find anything thank you!

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: grayscale image to 3d-graphic Reply #3 - Dec 10th, 2008, 11:20am   8) (oops, hit enter too soon) it's also one of those things that's hard to search for unless you know what it's called. in this case 'heightmap' is the magic word. (that picture i posted made me want to do something similar as the effect was spooky. was actually video, changing in realtime...)