Does anyone have a suggestion for how to model a wire-wrapped hilt with 
two colors of wire?

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For simple winding, a gradient pigment scaled to make small stripes 
might work.
Or maybe a row of lots of thin cylinders of alternating colors would 
work.  Maybe patterns in the winding could be created by rotating and 
changing the sizes of the cylinders a little bit.  The larger ones would 
look like wire that overlaps other wire.  Macros would help here with 
the placing and transformations of the cylinders.
Brendan

Dawn McKnight wrote:

> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to model a wire-wrapped hilt with 
> two colors of wire?
>

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I think this should do the trick :


cylinder {
  0, 2*y, .25

  texture{
    pigment{
      spiral1 2
      color_map{
        [0.00 color rgb <1,0,.1>]
        [0.50 color rgb <1,0,.1>]
        [0.50 color rgb <.1,0,1>]
        [1.00 color rgb <.1,0,1>]
      }
    }
    normal{
      average
      normal_map{
          [1.00 spiral1 2, 30 scallop_wave ]
          [1.00 spiral1 -50, .1 scallop_wave]
      }
    }
  rotate 90*x scale .1
  }
}



"Dawn McKnight" <blu### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to model a wire-wrapped hilt with
> two colors of wire?
>

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"Dawn McKnight" <blu### [at] maccom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to model a wire-wrapped hilt with
> two colors of wire?
>
With Povray 3.5: Maybe combination of two splines, one for rotating and the
other one for the wire?
Florian

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