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> Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
>
> > The main discovery here for me involved the problem of the scaling
> > of nested textures.  Often when you nest textures, the scaling
> > of the contained textures will be influenced by the scaling of the
> > containing texture.  Apparently, I was able to divorce this connection
> > by defining each pattern, prescaled, as a pigment function before
> > nesting them.  But my testing of this was not exhaustive.
>
> I remember MegaPOV used to have a "reset_children" warp to combat this,
but
> I thought it was completely replaced by pigment_pattern in 3.6 and
> derivatives (as described in manual section 3.5.11.25). This is the same
> problem?
>
> Tom
>

I tend to use more and more pigment_pattern and image_pattern because
transformations are independent.

Marc

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