On 11/8/24 19:45, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> Created a new 'ip_noise_generator' keyword for the patterns /
>> perturbations: agate, bozo, bumps, dents, granite, marble, noise_cubed,
>> spiral1, spiral2 and wrinkles. Made changes so the two remaining uses of
>> 'noise_generator' now set values local to 'fog{}' and 'irid{}'. The
>> patterns and features mentioned here are the only ones ever affected by
>> 'noise_generator' settings, global and not

> Sounds reasonable.  I presume there will be a default 'ip_noise_generator'
> value, and a warning for pre-4.0 scenes that use the global_settings()?

The 'ip_noise_generator' internal pattern settings are defaulted in yuqk 
- the effective noise generator defaulting(2) is unchanged from v3.8 
beta 2. The pre-yuqk (4.0 playpen) scenes see an error on invalid use of 
'noise_generator' in global_settings{}.

I believe a v4.0 release of POV-Ray should be something new. The yuqk 
fork - as my playpen for v4.0 changes / ideas - is breaking away from 
official POV-Ray v3.8 over time.

Aside: The maintenance of v3.8 and/or v3.7 versions can be continued 
indefinitely - if there is someone to do what would be tedious work over 
time, keeping those versions compiling as environmental stuff changes.

We can maintain the bridge to our old scenes with an officially 
maintained pre-v4.0 version - without crippling v4.0 development with 
the need to stay backward compatible with the old scenes.

Bill P.

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