Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
....
> On another note... Anybody: Is there a way to duplicate the aoi pattern
> w/ the official POV-Ray?

You can make such patterns for isosurface shapes.

I once posted an image that shows a texture controlled by such a pattern:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3CXns9391C756C905Ftorolavkhotmailcom%40204.213.191.226%3E/
http://tinyurl.com/agn2e

Here's the source code:
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/thread/%3Cweb.3edf86e32428076b417814a0%40news.povray.org%3E/
http://tinyurl.com/8hvmj


A related image:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3CXns93A4378303A9Ftorolavkhotmailcom%40204.213.191.226%3E/
http://tinyurl.com/ytkvh

And it's source code:
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/thread/%3CXns93A54E262AE2torolavkhotmailcom%40204.213.191.226%3E/
http://tinyurl.com/2dbua

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Tor Olav
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Anton Sherwood schreef:
> hermans wrote:
> 
>> Barth's SEXTIC is a surface with 65 double points. It's interesting to 
>> know that 20 of these double points are the vertices of a regular 
>> dodecahedron and 30 other double points are the midpoints of the edges 
>> of another regular dodecahedron. 
> 
> 
> And the other five?
> 
I looked at the original paper by W. Barth about his sextic (and decic) 
surfaces in the Journal of Algebraic Geometry, 5, 1996 and I learned 
that the other 15 nodes are located at infinity.

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