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28 Apr 2024 16:52:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: can't i rotate a pigment?  
From: Anton Sherwood
Date: 8 May 2015 03:18:00
Message: <554c6328@news.povray.org>
On 2015-5-07 23:58, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> No surprise: You rotate /the object/ a certain value around the y-axis,
> apply the pigment, rotate the object back the same value. You have not
> rotated /the pigment/ itself.

Why not?  Generally

	object { ...
		texture { foo }
		translate ...
		}

is not the same as

	object { ...
		translate ...
		texture { foo }
		}

> However, if the pigment is a slope pattern (along y-axis I suppose)
> I do not expect much to happen if you rotate it around the y-axis
> in any case.

Not even if it's built of slopes along, say, some other vector(s)?

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