POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : loosing textures : Re: loosing textures Server Time
29 Jun 2024 00:09:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: loosing textures  
From: Marc Jacquier
Date: 21 Oct 2002 18:34:08
Message: <3db480e0$1@news.povray.org>

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> Hi Bill,
>
> like Marc said, Moray cannot display a procedural texture, since it
> doesn't know how it might look. Exceptions (like checker, hexagon) to
> this can be rendered because they have well defined shapes/boundaries.
> Maybe the stone one could also get a proxy wireframe, but I'm not sure
> whether that's a stock POV-Ray texture....
>
In pov some paterns are simply  geometrical as wood (concentrical
cylinders), onion (concentrical spheres), gradient (linear), etc... and can
be figured by a schematic proxy.
some others are noise or fractal noise based (bozo, agate, wrinkles...) and
can't be figured by a simple proxy

Marc


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