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  Re: drawing a grid on playing board  
From: wizkidguy
Date: 1 Apr 2006 16:20:00
Message: <web.442eee08bdfec3f3bbb7f5d50@news.povray.org>
"lifesayko" <lif### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to raytracing, and I'm trying to make a WeiQi set, more commonly
> known as "go": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28board_game%29
>    For the board I need to make a 19x19 grid on top of it, and I was
> wondering how I could do this.
> I thought of making rectangles with very very low height, but this seems
> more of a loophole...  is there a way to have have it "drawn" onto the
> board, other than creating a texture somehow and putting that on? (would
> that even work?)
>
> thanks in advance

I am also new to POV-RAY but i think that you might be able to use the brick
texture. I am not totally sure on this but it says that it makes a brick
with mortar, which sounds like what you want. You could use a wood texture
and a black pigment to make it. just experiment with that a little.


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