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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 2 Mar 2001 07:53:23
Message: <3A9F97C4.1DEE44C9@gmx.de>
Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> The displace warp uses the gradient of the grayscale value of the color
> of a pigment to determine the direction and amount of warping to do.
> Instead of taking a pigment (pattern + color_map), it will be able to
> take a pattern and spline, and get the float value directly instead of
> converting colors to floats. In other words, using a spline {} as a
> "float_map {}", mapping float values to pattern values.
> 

Wouldn't a spline wavetype for patterns do that?

Christoph

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