Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <39B517ED.F7229D48@online.no>, Tor Olav Kristensen
> <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote:
>
> > Or is it possible to read from an image file with
> > standard POV ?
>
> Not unless it is an ASCII format.

So I could read an uuencoded image then ? =)


> However, you could position the blob
> component at the origin, rotate an image map so the portion of the image
> the blob will represent is also at the origin, and scale it up by a
> large amount, so the whole component is a single color. Doing this, you
> could make it *look* like each blob component has a solid color.

Great idea !

I have now tried this with an array of spheres. => See attached image.
Is this a well known technique ?

Now I have to go and try to use this on my antiblobs,
as Xplo Eristotle suggested.


> Using the eval_pigment() function would be much more elegant, though...

Yes, but .... :)


Tor Olav
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