Lance Birch wrote:
> "Steely" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.425bb18bc9122b16420f83140@news.povray.org...
> 
>>In our german POV forum a guy came up with this question and no one of us
>>was able  to solve it. So I decided to forward it.
>>// -----------------
>>
>>The task is to make a big stone wall made by boxes, half a unit high and a
>>unit wide. The single stones shall have a marble texture that way, that
>>every stone is slight different from the others. But instead of building
>>the wall out of 500 single stones, he wants *one* box with a brick pattern
>>*and* every brick shall have a different look.
>>// -----------------
>>
>>Any Ideas ?
> 
> 
> What about a material_map?  Granted it would involve creating an image with a
> series of differently coloured bricks (one colour for each different texture for
> the bricks), but this would facilitate the use of n textures for the bricks and
> allow the desired variation.
You can color the bricks with 3 colors that never touch. If the marble 
texture does not have structures that are larger than a brick size you 
may get away with that.
> 
> The image could be generated by creating a simple rendering of a plane with a
> brick pattern and no anti-aliasing, taking the result into an image program and
> filling each brick with a different colour.
> 
> That's the best solution I can think of off the top of my head, but perhaps
> someone else can think of a more elegant solution.
> 
> Lance.
> 
> thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au
> 
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