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4 Oct 2024 01:13:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Most unuseful macro contest : the mPipe macro  
From: Remco de Korte
Date: 30 Apr 1999 13:03:24
Message: <3729D1C7.D573778A@xs4all.nl>
Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> The race is on...
> Here is one very useless macro I did a few days ago for a picture (and
> didn't use eventually because the pipes didn't look good in that
> particular image, too bad).
> It makes random pipes like in that old Windows screensaver, though the
> pipes are constrained in a box. You can define your own pipe decorations
> and some other parameters. You can save the result in a file for later
> use. It can eat considerable amounts of memory. It's not bugfree.
> Our silent friend Goevert did a picture like this some time ago, but
> this is a totally different code.
> 
> It's good to create pipes, oil refinerie, Death Star tunnels, and er,
> pipes and oil refineries.
> 
> Pipe image demo below, made with several runs of the macro.
> Macro and example in binaries.utilities (madpipe.zip).
> 
> Have fun
> 
> Gilles Tran
> 
The image is teriffic. 
The macro... one question: does it check for crossing pipes (?) ?

Remco


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