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  Re: Imitate Sine Wave Surfer with superpatch?  
From: Mick Hazelgrove
Date: 8 May 1999 16:03:29
Message: <37348a81.0@news.povray.org>
Hi
Habve a good browse in utilities someone came up with some textures for
superpatch which included some sine wave pigments.

I think it was called pigments.inc


> 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?
>

Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590"@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
news:37339cfa.0@news.povray.org...
> 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?
>


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