I know it's A Bad Idea to post binaries here, but it's so tiny I thought no one
would mind!  Anywhere, here's an example of the material_map idea.  This one
uses 144 randomly generated textures for the bricks.  Save it as a .pov and put
the png in the same directory - you may have to correct for the line breaks.

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camera {location <0,0,-1> look_at <0,0,0>}
light_source {<10,-4,-4> 2}

#declare Index = 0;
#declare R = seed(134624);
#declare BrickTex = array[144];
#while (Index <= 143)
 #declare BrickTex[Index] = texture {pigment{color rgb
<rand(R),rand(R),rand(R)>} normal {bumps rand(R)} scale rand(R)/2}
 #declare Index = Index + 1;
#end
#declare Index = 0;

plane {z, 0
 texture {
  material_map {
   png "brick.png"
   texture {pigment {color rgb <1,1,1>}}
   #while (Index <= 143)
    texture {BrickTex[Index]}
    #declare Index = Index + 1;
   #end
  }
 }
}

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Hope this helps!

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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