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4 Oct 2024 17:09:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Repeating Patterns  
From: honnza
Date: 20 Sep 2007 04:30:01
Message: <web.46f22f45d8fa0949a9ce4df50@news.povray.org>
"bugman" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I made a simple animation that kind of looks like the sun, using the
> following basic method:
>
> camera{location <0,0,-2.25> look_at <0,0,0>}
> sphere {<0,0,0>,1 pigment{bumps scale 0.25 translate <0,0,clock>}
> finish{ambient 1}}
>
> Initial_Clock=0
> Final_Clock=1
> Cyclic_Animation=on
>
> The only problem is that I want the animation to loop so that the final
> picture is continuous with the initial picture. I thought the "bumps",
> "spotted", and "bozo" patterns would do this for me, but apparently they
> are not a repeating patterns. Is there any way for POV-Ray to make
> repeating patterns that resemble these patterns?

maybe you could use warp{repeat offset z/2 flip z}


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