POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Pattern-Arithmetics : Re: Pattern-Arithmetics Server Time
29 Jul 2024 22:26:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pattern-Arithmetics  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 8 Nov 2000 13:57:49
Message: <3A09A22B.10B9E2BE@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Daniel Schwen wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I hope this qualifies as advanced.
> To calculate a CGH (computergenerated hologram) I need to create a
> pattern which consists of the sum of several translated onion patterns
> squared. How can I accomplish this? Layered textures obviously won't do
> the trick.
> Using an Isosurface function as the pattern would be perfect. Does that
> work, and if so how?
> Cheers,
> Daniel

I do not understand what exactly you want to du, but in megapov you can use any
isosurface function as a pattern, for example:

pigment { function { ... } }


Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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