POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Knurling Macro : Re: Knurling Macro Server Time
31 Jul 2024 22:18:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Knurling Macro  
From: CShake
Date: 27 Mar 2009 16:45:16
Message: <49cd3adc$1@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:
> I was wondering if you had previously tried the 'quilted' pattern (as turned
> into a function, for use with the HF_Cylinder macro in shapes.inc)? That would
> seem to be an alternate method to create a knurling effect on a cylinder,
> although I haven't tried it myself.
> 
> Ken W.
> 
> 

Actually I hadn't thought of that, I just have a mental association 
between functions and normals, so I never thought of using it as a 
heightfield. I may look into that at some point, maybe see if there are 
performance gains for one implementation over the other.


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