"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

>
> HOWEVER, using POV-Ray's own brick pattern, and with the mortar scaled to zero
> so as not to show, there may be a way to make random-sized wood planks-- or what
> *look* like that-- by some odd scalings of the cells pattern AND different
> 'offsets' in the warp{repeat y offset <...>}.

Here's an example of that idea, using two different 'wood' color_maps from the
"woodmaps.inc" include file, and some necessary warp{turbulence..} for each one.
No normals here, though. (Making matching normals for this kind of thing turned
out to be more difficult than I thought. Not impossible, of course... just more
work.)

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