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  Re: Why can't patterns be declared ?  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 2 Mar 2001 16:56:35
Message: <chrishuff-12D8A0.16545502032001@news.povray.org>
In article <3aa00ee0@news.povray.org>, "Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg> 
wrote:

> Can you declare a "pigment_pattern"? I haven't tried that myself.

I highly doubt that it works differently from the other patterns.


> By the way, I don't like "pigment_pattern". I feel the keyword is 
> wrong. It should just be "pattern" because it can be used in 
> textures, and normals. (I rarely use materials, so I don't know if it 
> works there too.)

It's called "pigment_pattern" because it takes a pigment and turns it 
into a pattern. Makes perfect sense to me..."pattern" wouldn't, though. 
(What kind of pattern? What's this pigment doing here?)

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Christopher James Huff
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