I had an idea for a cheat for doing a section of metal decking with holes in 
it using the marble pattern.

I used a marble pattern for a pigment, did a color_map starting with a rgbt of 
1 at 0, ended with "DarkSlateGray" at 1 and had a tight transition at around 
8 so I would get a hard edge between the metal and the open space.

The problem is that I found that while the texture had open spaces, the solid 
parts of the texture only where on the surface of my test object. I figured 
that since the pigment goes through the object if you cut it, that using a 
transparent color would show the solid portions thorugh the object.

My metal floor that this is going to be used on is very thin, so I could still 
use it as is, just make the thickness of the cylinder I'm using very thin so 
that none of the light would pass between the upper and lower surface of the 
object, but I was wondering if I the results that I got where the correct 
ones.

PHIL

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