Rune S. Johansen wrote:
>Ken wrote:
>>Greg M. Johnson wrote:
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>>> I want, say, an irregular-looking pattern that is at the same time
>>> tileable. Something fractal-looking, animal-scale-looking, or
>metal-bubble
>>> looking.  All of the functions I have plugged into the pigment function
>of
>>> the superpatch look like boring arrays of circles & squares.  Has anyone
>>> gotten any formulas to yield interesting, REGULAR patterns in the
pigment
>>> function?
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>I've also tried alternative camera-types, but if you
>want the texture to tile both horizontally and vertically,
>there will always be some parts of it that is enlarged
>more than other parts.
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Oops... I guess I was a little too quick there...

What I meant was that you could use an alternative camera
that views 360 degrees. With some camera-types the rendered
image would then automatically be tiled some way or another.
If you want to tile a texture you can just put the texture
on a sphere and place the camera inside the sphere.

But as I said, I don't think that way gives satisfying
results...

Maybe you could use a regular pattern with a lot of warps?
This could probably give interesting results if used cleverly.

But, well, you asked for a superpatch solution,
I can't help with that right now.

Greetings,

Rune S. Johansen
http://hjem.get2net.dk/rsj

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