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From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 21 Apr 2021 11:07:37
Message: <60803fb9$1@news.povray.org>
Op 21-4-2021 om 15:12 schreef ingo:
> in news:web.608012f064981f5c79819d986cde94f1@news.povray.org jr wrote:
> 
>> "fake granite
> 
> 've been looking at this thread with half an eye only. I worked in the
> graphics industry for quite a while and one of my jobs was pattern
> designer & colorist. The one thing I learnt,
> 
> People want what they think looks like the real thing. Not what the real
> thing actually looks like.
>
How true!

> I have a colorised concrete floor in my house. The top layer has been
> ground off into the "grain". "What a nice marble floor" ... it looks more
> like a coarse granite ... it is closest to man made terazzo .... But still
> "a nice marble floor" ;)
> 
> https://ingoogni.nl/stuff/IMG_2021_04_21_0277_s.jpg with a nice line of
> light.
> 
> Ingo
> 

Oh lol! almost but not quite a granite. Nice terrazzo certainly. I have 
tiles on my floor with a "rock" print. They are all identical but 
complex enough to fool the eyes at first glance. However, how fake can 
you get!? I didn't choose them... ;-)

-- 
Thomas


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