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"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Hmm, I was wrong about the object pattern itself-- it *is* actually a
> 3D/volumetric pattern, of the entire object given to it. That's rather neat!
Right. Essentially, POV-Ray just checks to see if the ray intersection point is
inside the object, and gives it the appropriate texturing.
http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_560e.htm
> But
> the box object that I 'projected' the pattern onto happened to have its front
> surface exactly along the x/y plane (before I rotated it), so that's the only
> 'slice' of the pattern visible as the 'shadow.'
>
> So I attempted to 'squash' the object pattern in z by scaling it-- to try and
> get a more complete representation of the original object as the 'shadow'-- but
> that produced no useful result. Seems that an 'infinitely thin' box surface
> would require an infinitely-tiny depth-scaling of the object pattern, for the
> *entire* object to show up there.
What you can do is take the object and make it into an isosurface, then use that
function like: function {Object (x, y, 0)} which will scale the object
infinitely in the z direction.
But wait - there's more!
Now use that function in a pigment pattern, and you get a silhouette (shadow) of
the object.
Easy to do for cardinal axis aligned shadows, takes a little bit more to do
off-axis either by pre-rotating the object and then rotating the pattern back,
or maybe by doing some vector normal to a plane type stuff...
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