I had some free time on my hands again this week and decided to rework another
old image, this time my 16 year old POVCOMP 2004 entry "Pathways" (it earned
23rd place).

This composition uses random 2D non-periodic Truchet tiling, a technique I first
learned from Paul Bourke about 20 years ago (he wrote about it a few years later
at http://paulbourke.net/geometry/tilingplane/) and that I've used in many
images over the years. In this case it's basically a union of a few hundred
torus segments with spheres attached at random positions.

I like this new version much better than the original; I rendered it mainly to
improve on the textures and lighting. The background is just a plane with
procedural bump and pigment mapping and the overall aspect ratio of the shot is
a golden rectangle.


Cheers,
Rob

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