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Nieminen Juha wrote:
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> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote:
> : Regardless the fact the you and Warp, both advanced users, can figure out
> : a somewhat complicated method of rendering this pattern, does not make
> : it intuitively obvious to others and I doubt less than 10% of all Pov
> : users could do it themselves. Patches are for more than mere convenience
> : of parsing speed and memory effeciency.
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> If we add a patch to povray every time someone wants his own pattern
> type, povray would grow wildly and there would be a lot more maintenance
> problems.
Well, this reminds me recent discussion in c.g.r.r., where discussion
about hard-coded textures vs. "coded shaders" took place. Perhaps
someone could create patch for texture plugins: user creates it's own
texture with script, then specifies it as object texture and renders.
Best would be, if texture is in Renderman format (i.e. Renderman
shader). Any takers?
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