In article <3aad6e55$1@news.povray.org> , "John M. Dlugosz" 
<joh### [at] dlugoszcom> wrote:

> Thanks for the explaination of what the "last" one does.  What we need,
> though, is to have parse-time selection of the noise function on a
> per-texture basis, so Miller's classy stuff still works.  I suppose that
> could be done by having two different function "objects" and automatically
> choose one or the other at parse time, where one is the old way and one is
> the new.

The correct solution is to abandon texture using the old, broken noise
function and adjust textures accordingly.  You should not count on
POV-Ray supporting every broken feature forever.  Future versions of
POV-Ray could just change the default textures to compensate for the
changed noise functions and then, while not looking identical, the
texture will look similar.  Of course, this is a one-time inconvenience,
but fixing it once properly is far better than just patching around it.


     Thorsten


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