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  Re: Imitate Sine Wave Surfer with superpatch?  
From: Spider
Date: 7 May 1999 23:20:14
Message: <37339DFF.A973F3A2@bahnhof.se>
"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> There is a program out there called sine wave surfer that can make
> seamless tiled images of all kinds of looks.  From its web page comes to
> mind one striking image of some kind of glowing green metallic ooze, all
> seamless!
> 
> Rather than download this program, even if it were freeware, I was
> trying to do the same thing with the isosurface PIGMENT feature in
> Superpatch.  I figured that the easiest way to make a seamless tile was
> with a trig-function based pigment, viewed orthographically.   I tried
> around with several different functions, but everything essentially
> looked like marching squares and circles.
> 
> Is there an algorithmic way to use POV to make a seamless tile,
> especially with the superpatch?

Yes. Chris Colefax has an include file to do exactly this... I think you
may ask uncle Ken for the link, since I don't have _any_ of my
links/bookmarks left here  *sobs*

//Spider
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