"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>   Are you sure the pattern is not named after the clown?
>
> No, I'm definitely not sure the pattern isn't named after bozo the clown. 
> But
> are you sure it is? Do you have any substantial hints that it is so?

I was imagining Bozo the Clown as having fuzzy hair in the shape of a 
horseshoe around his head, been a very long time since I had seen him so 
that was a glimpse back through time seeing the wiki article.

When using the pigment without any extras (no turbulence, scale, 
transformations) on a unit-sized sphere, half white and half orange, the 
appearance is what I expected to be like Bozo before seeing the picture of 
him. Adding a red nose helps visualize that. This is the view from a camera 
at -3*z:
http://0mniverse.com/povray/bozopatternclown.jpg

I guess David Buck must know the real answer, but I can't remember if it was 
in DKB-Trace prior to POV-Ray Trace. Sure seems like it might have been the 
clown-hair fluff look of it that got it this name, but everyone probably 
mixed that up (like me) thinking it was about the hair and not some other 
attribute (if any, such as "silly" as was already mentioned).

Bob

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