Halbert wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have an idea as to how one could create an effect like the
> "proximity pattern" in Pov 3.5? That is to say I have an object and I would
> like to make an object pattern with it except I want the colors of the
> pattern to be selectd from a color map according to the proximity to the
> object. I was thinking that some sort of function that might be able to
> achieve this.

There were several experiments in that direction in the past, see for
example:

Subject: proximity/blur pattern finally adjusted
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:52:33 +0100

Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images

Subject: proximity pattern in 3.5 example
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:26:37 +0100

Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images

The rounded version of the IsoCSG library (iso_rcsg) 

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/ic/index.html

also generates functions representing the distance to the surface, but as
soon as you use difference operations this is no more valid.

Christoph

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