Jim Charter wrote:
> 
> Sounds powerful.  For those like myself who can't quite picture it, 
> would such a feature allow one to dynamically change the scale in a 
> pattern such as crackle?  You can sort of do it now of course but the 
> result is this goopy averaged effect.  Would a function warp allow you 
> to do something like make successive rows of cells change scale?

Changing the scale of the cells in the crackle pattern would be 
something to do internally in the pattern (and it would no more allow 
the current speedup techniques probably).

Changing the scale of any pattern locally is nothing more than a 
non-linear transform of the coordinates which is already possible at the 
moment.  A function warp would just simplify this a bit.

Christoph

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