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29 Jul 2024 18:23:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to remove wood uniformity?  
From: Alf Peake
Date: 20 May 2001 06:07:05
Message: <3b079749@news.povray.org>
"John VanSickle" <van### [at] erolscom> wrote in message
news:3B069C54.3686E46E@erols.com...
> Alf Peake wrote:
> >
> > A wood floor. All the planks use the same declared colour map. How
do
> > I vary the apparent colour of each plank - lighter or darker?
>
> Declare a different colour map for each plank.  Use the rand()
function
> to slightly vary the colors.

Yes, nice and simple, I had thought about it, but as the map had
around 100 entries I thought it was probably overkill. I used Qbasic
to generate the map so there would be no problem making variations on
a theme. Thanks for the input.

I'll try Ingo's suggestion first.

Alf


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