Mountain Effect

Jean-François COLONNA
jean-francois.colonna@polytechnique.edu
CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques APpliquées) UMR CNRS 7641, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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The so-called Mountain effect transforms an arbitrary picture using the following obvious process (the luminance of each point becomes the altitude of a related surface):
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(bird's-eye view)
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(between a bird's-eye view and a side view)
Copyright (c) Jean-François Colonna, 2019.
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