POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Tessellations : Re: Tessellations Server Time
2 Aug 2024 02:21:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tessellations  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 19 Mar 2008 11:55:20
Message: <47e14578@news.povray.org>
> I see, thank you, that would work very well. I think what I imagined was 
> exactly
> like that except I hoped that the long list of predefined colors in 
> colors.inc
> existed as a string or array already so I would not have to copy and paste 
> into
> my own array declaration.
>
> Your method above is much the same as I use for these tilings in 
> Mathematica,
> for I have fallen into the habit of sorting the tiles by surface area into
> subsets, and sometimes there are very many of them. These colors help eke 
> out
> the symmetries of the tiling, or possibly, the lack of symmetries.

Yeah, it's not very concise, but on the other hand it lets
you exclude some colors, like all the grays.


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