In my rabbit-hole roulette I returned to the mesh camera with a new 
idea. I've wanted, for some strange reason, to capture the mosaic 
preview from POV-Ray, but I never did find a way until I had an Idea.

Here are two versions of the same scene with a regular rectangular 
mosaic and a hexagon mosaic.

I'd like to explore other variations of this to create a painterly feel, 
which I think would require me to find new ways of subdividing the plane 
into unique shapes. I think I need to learn voronoi patterns to really 
push it to the next step.

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Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglishcom> wrote:

> I'd like to explore other variations of this to create a painterly feel,
> which I think would require me to find new ways of subdividing the plane
> into unique shapes. I think I need to learn voronoi patterns to really
> push it to the next step.

Check out:

https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3Cweb.60c2896123b82ed51f9dae3025979125%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3
Cweb.60c2896123b82ed51f9dae3025979125%40news.povray.org%3E

- BW

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglishcom> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to explore other variations of this to create a painterly feel,
> > which I think would require me to find new ways of subdividing the plane
> > into unique shapes. I think I need to learn voronoi patterns to really
> > push it to the next step.
>
> Check out:
>
>
https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3Cweb.60c2896123b82ed51f9dae3025979125%40news.povray.org%3E/#
%3
> Cweb.60c2896123b82ed51f9dae3025979125%40news.povray.org%3E
>
> - BW

Also this:

https://news.povray.org/web.5ae97ed097bd1601a47873e10%40news.povray.org

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On 5/9/2024 10:38 AM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglishcom> wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to explore other variations of this to create a painterly feel,
>> which I think would require me to find new ways of subdividing the plane
>> into unique shapes. I think I need to learn voronoi patterns to really
>> push it to the next step.
> 
> Check out:
> 
>
https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3Cweb.60c2896123b82ed51f9dae3025979125%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3
> Cweb.60c2896123b82ed51f9dae3025979125%40news.povray.org%3E
> 
> - BW
> 

Now that is a cool technique. The discussion referenced Red Blob Games, 
which is where I snurched my hexagon algorithms from.

Josh

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