Great Stuff - Both of you.

You should sell the code to tile manfacturers!

Mick

"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
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> Tek wrote:
> > I was just messing around with repeating patterns and came up with this:
>  > [...]
>
>    Tek, this is just great. I'm writing a "ceramic tile generator"
> macro, and my method to mirror the pattern really sucked... your method
> is much more elegant and useful, and produces much nicer results:
>
>    http://www.ignorancia.org/images/tests/azulejos3a.jpg
>    http://www.ignorancia.org/images/tests/azulejos3b.jpg
>    http://www.ignorancia.org/images/tests/azulejos3c.jpg
>    http://www.ignorancia.org/images/tests/azulejos3d.jpg
>    http://www.ignorancia.org/images/tests/azulejos3e.jpg
>    http://www.ignorancia.org/images/tests/azulejos3f.jpg
>
>    These are a few of the endless posibilities. The macro consists on
> some trig functions used as pigments with carefully-crafted color maps,
> and using your "rotated warps" effect for the repetition around z.
>
>    Many thanks for sharing such discovery: it was a beautiful new year
> present!
>
> --
> Jaime
>

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