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I was wondering if it would be possible to create a Star-Wars - like hologram of some object using POVRay. This is what came out.

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Computer generated topography experiment.

Dry lake topography: large (eroded) crackles and smaller (less eroded) ones. The texture definitely needs more work to represent the detail/fine structure (AA-safe).

Rendering time: 106min (640x480 +A0.2)
Source file: topo-drylake.pov [4kb]