Finally got those photon tori tweaked just how I want 'em after an hour
and a half playing around.  It looks like I should still lower the
spacing on the orange one, but it has plenty of room to grow before
seriously hogging resources.

The warped torus is an isosurface of course.  It looks semi-random but
is really distorted with a 19-cycle sinusoidal deviation of constant
magnitude from its central circular axis, the orientation of which
rotates 3 times per trip around the circular axis.  The relative
primeness of 3 (or 6) and 19 make it non-repeating.  :)

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David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
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David Fontaine wrote:
> The warped torus is an isosurface of course.  It looks semi-random but
> is really distorted with a 19-cycle sinusoidal deviation of constant
> magnitude from its central circular axis, the orientation of which
> rotates 3 times per trip around the circular axis.  The relative
> primeness of 3 (or 6) and 19 make it non-repeating.  :)

<voice=Beavis>
Relative primeness rules!
</voice>

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Anton Sherwood wrote:
> 
> <voice=Beavis>
> Relative primeness rules!
> </voice>

huhuhuh... dude... that torus has bumps... ahuhuhuh

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David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
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