In article <395916CA.D8746C63@online.no>, Tor Olav Kristensen 
<tto### [at] onlineno> wrote:

> > I do plan on adding torus and cone components. :-)
> 
> Good.
> Any chance of a torus segment component as well ?
> (E.g.: Give a normal vector for the torus and a point in the "ring",
> the angle it covers and the minor radius.)

Maybe...


> Maybe im going to far now, but how about making it possible to
> cut in the strength field of a component with primitive shapes ?
> (I.e.: "CSG-light" for blobs)

This should be possible with the "pigment" component type using the blob 
pattern with the object pattern.


> > It just adds the contribution of the blob into the rest of the pattern.
> > I added it so you don't have to translate/duplicate a blob object into
> > the blob pattern.
> 
> Smart.
> So then one can make nested blobs (or even recursive ones) ?
> 
> Thank you very much for explaining.

No nested blobs, it just allows you to add a blob *object* to a blob 
*pattern*. Though the syntax looks like one blob nested within another...

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