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30 Jul 2024 02:29:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: asymmetric density maps  
From: clipka
Date: 2 Aug 2010 08:39:50
Message: <4c56bc96@news.povray.org>
Am 01.08.2010 23:54, schrieb Jim Charter:

> I have long been looking for a way to smoothly change the scale of a
> pattern through space, such as you might see on a leather grain, and so
> far the only way I know to do it is with black_hole. Whatever the
> wizardry is that underlies the black_hole warp, again I wonder if it or
> similar could be exposed for use more directly.

I'm just thinking that some "function warp" might come in handy here, 
where the user would supply three functions fx(x,y,z), fy(x,y,z), 
fz(x,y,z) mapping scene coordinates to pattern coordinates. I don't 
think it could get any more generic than that.


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