2d to 3d contours

chewy

hey im looking for a simple program which will take a 2d image and make a 3d image/model out of it based on the its lightness and darkness...



its sorta like a 3d contour map but not, ie it doesn't have height points that i can use that some of the 3d contour map programs seem to want....

dangerman

its a long shot, but do you mean a terrain generation package?

Terragen is an amazing one:

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/cando.shtml

sample image from it:

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/gallery/gallerypage.php?item=8&ind=1&group=


terrain import/export - Terragen can import and export raw heightfield information in 8-bit greyscale

I dunno if thats what you mean.

chewy

you've gotten what i mean, back in the *86 days i would have used vue d'espirit but i was looking for a program that vasvery simpler then those cos im not actually looking to generate a 'scene' like the one above ...

im trying to take a simple image and make it look like a contoured map... so it would have contour lines, and say ten steps of gradiation as if it were sea/land height...

or some other way to achieve that effect, i could always just trying copying the picture and drawing it...

i used to have that prog on my previous comp think ill download it again anyway, see what i can do with it cheers, it could do the trick

ideally i was looking for some tiny one function prog that might do it, you know the type

Victor

Thats really good, but they mess up the tree lines.

How about using an excel graph? Crude, but effective. You can tailor the graduations to your needs.

Both of these are surface type graphs.

Figment

A few mags have Bryce 4 or 5 free with them at the moment and that should be able to do something close to what you want as well.