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Life & fun · August 18, 2015

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Heman – Tiny C library for working with height maps

Heman – Tiny C library for working with height maps launched on August 18, 2015 with 46 votes, #1,309 of 3,588 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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Heman is a C library that provides image utilities for working with height maps and other floating-point images. It is designed for developers who need to process and manipulate height map data programmatically. The library's name derives from the combined terms "height map" and "normal map," reflecting its core functionality for handling these types of graphical data.

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Heman is a C library of image utilities for dealing with height maps and other floating-point images. It’s a subset of letters taken from height map and normal map . You can access the source code at:from heman.readthedocs.org

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