waggy wrote:

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>With that said, I still think this would work well for a broken-bottle
>mosaic, and with some truly funky crackle use, a nice sliced fruitcake.
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>-Waggy
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Aaaaah, fruitcake.....

May I ask a silly question?  You noted in the wiki, "I like to use 
irrational* numbers for transformations such as this one to scale down 
the crackle texture."  Is there a particular reason for this?  Just 
curious (and hoping to learn something).

BTW, them's purty pitchers.

--Sherry Shaw


* I like irrational numbers.  I like to imagine them running around 
shouting "Wombat!" and tossing handfuls of chocolate pudding into the air.

-- 
#macro T(E,N)sphere{x,.4rotate z*E*60translate y*N pigment{wrinkles scale
.3}finish{ambient 1}}#end#local I=0;#while(I<5)T(I,1)T(1-I,-1)#local I=I+
1;#end camera{location-5*z}plane{z,37 pigment{granite color_map{[.7rgb 0]
[1rgb 1]}}finish{ambient 2}}//                                   TenMoons

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