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Hi, Paul! >>We have built a 400k+ polygon New York city of the future, through which we are flying a VTOL >>commuter jet – which lands on a rooftop airport in the city. The jet is a cross between a harrier >>and a 737, we would like to create jet heat-haze below the aircraft while landing. Would this be >a suitable application for your refraction IPAS? No, Refraction Mapping is useless, unless your heat flow is a mesh. In your situation I would use Fractal Flow Refraction, which we wrote exactly for that… Refraction Mapping would be extremely useful if your jet would be made out of some futuristic semi-transparent material and you would want to show how city skyline looks through it. Or, at least, if your aircraft would have something like heliocopter cabin (some mesh made from refracting material). Alex, Video International