This gets edited into the patterns.htm file I have here immediately, thanks
Nathan.
Didn't know about the "more than 256" thing.  Great, but I don't see how it
could.  After all, if there's only a 256 color palette or one 8-bit plane of a
24bit image how does it apply textures to other than those specific areas of a
image then?  A kind of interpolation?

Bob

"Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote in message
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| Advantages of image_pattern:
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| 1) it is not limited to textures; it can be used directly with normals and
| pigments
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| 2) it can provide more than 256 entries
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| 3) it fades between entries (especially useful when you have fewer than 256)
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| 4) it can be nested
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| 5) it follows a more standard format (like most other patterns), unlike
| material_map, which is specialized
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| 6) interpolation of the bitmap works better (see documentation on
| material_map for an explanation of why interpolation is not effective with
| material_maps)
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|
| -Nathan
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