Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> I found a sort of "gold mine" with displacement warps on MegaPOV. Here I
> used a wrinkles pattern as base, displaced with a "sandwich" of several
> other patterns:

Nice.  Note displace warps, esp. type 1 (gradient based) can be quite 
slow and this is a problem when used in isosurfaces of course...

Also note that the displace warp is somewhat a deprecated feature.  It 
is in current MegaPOV because it is a useful feature but there have been 
plans (since the 3.5 development) for a more universal feature allowing 
the same efffects (i.e. function warps). Of course it will be possible 
to implement a displace warp effect with such a new feature - it would 
just require rewriting the code.

And before anyone asks - this has not been implemented until now because 
no one found the time to do so - if someone does it (well coded, 
including documentation, sample scenes etc.) it will be added of course.

Christoph

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