I think this an interesting effect.

Almost fractal isn't it ?

See code below.


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// ===== 1 ======= 2 ======= 3 ======= 4 ======= 5 ======= 6 ======= 7
// Try rendering at different resolutions
// with no AA (Anti Aliasing)

#version 3.1;

light_source { <0, 0, 0>, 1.5 }

sphere {
  <0, 0, 0>, 600 // Changing this radius gives different patterns
  pigment {
    gradient y
    color_map {
      [ 0.0 rgb <1, 0, 0> ]
      [ 0.5 rgb <0, 1, 0> ]
      [ 1.0 rgb <0, 0, 1> ]
    }
  }
}

camera {
  location <1, 0, 0>
  look_at <0, 0, 0>
  angle 168 // Changing this angle also alters the patterns
}

// ===== 1 ======= 2 ======= 3 ======= 4 ======= 5 ======= 6 ======= 7

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On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:30:52 +0200, Tor Olav Kristensen
<tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>
>I think this an interesting effect.
>
>Almost fractal isn't it ?

Cool! Some time age (13 years? Man, does time fly by!) I made a BASIC
program for my Apple IIe which produced Moire patterns. Back then I
would have never thought of them as of something other than beautiful.
This image reminds me of the good ole days (though yours probably
didn't take as long to render, an hour and a half at 280*192 :) ).
Very, very soothing.

BTW I've found a great way of making tileable moire patterns in
PhotoShop so the good ole days are back <g>


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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> Cool! Some time age (13 years? Man, does time fly by!) I made a BASIC
> program for my Apple IIe which produced Moire patterns. Back then I
> would have never thought of them as of something other than beautiful.

But are there any useful applications for them ?


> This image reminds me of the good ole days (though yours probably
> didn't take as long to render, an hour and a half at 280*192 :) ).
> Very, very soothing.

17 years ago I ordered a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 
from England.

Back then I did some experimenting with Lissajous 
curves in 2D, and sometimes when plotting those, 
nice Moire patterns appeared.


> BTW I've found a great way of making tileable moire patterns in
> PhotoShop so the good ole days are back <g>

How do you do this ?


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If one continues to get interesting structures at many levels of
magnification, this meets one most basic definition of a fractal.

Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> I think this an interesting effect.
>
> Almost fractal isn't it ?
>
> See code below.
>
> Tor Olav
> --
> mailto:tor### [at] hotmailcom
> http://www.crosswinds.net/~tok/tokrays.html
>
> // ===== 1 ======= 2 ======= 3 ======= 4 ======= 5 ======= 6 ======= 7
> // Try rendering at different resolutions
> // with no AA (Anti Aliasing)
>
> #version 3.1;
>
> light_source { <0, 0, 0>, 1.5 }
>
> sphere {
>   <0, 0, 0>, 600 // Changing this radius gives different patterns
>   pigment {
>     gradient y
>     color_map {
>       [ 0.0 rgb <1, 0, 0> ]
>       [ 0.5 rgb <0, 1, 0> ]
>       [ 1.0 rgb <0, 0, 1> ]
>     }
>   }
> }
>
> camera {
>   location <1, 0, 0>
>   look_at <0, 0, 0>
>   angle 168 // Changing this angle also alters the patterns
> }
>
> // ===== 1 ======= 2 ======= 3 ======= 4 ======= 5 ======= 6 ======= 7
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 18:26:56 +0200, Tor Olav Kristensen
<tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>
>Peter Popov wrote:
>> 
>> Cool! Some time age (13 years? Man, does time fly by!) I made a BASIC
>> program for my Apple IIe which produced Moire patterns. Back then I
>> would have never thought of them as of something other than beautiful.
>
>But are there any useful applications for them ?

I have heard of moire pattern analysis being used in vibrational
dynamics but can't say anything for sure.

>> This image reminds me of the good ole days (though yours probably
>> didn't take as long to render, an hour and a half at 280*192 :) ).
>> Very, very soothing.
>
>17 years ago I ordered a Sinclair ZX Spectrum from England.

17 years ago I was probably spending most of my days sitting on my
bottom, building castles from wooden blocks.

>Back then I did some experimenting with Lissajous 
>curves in 2D, and sometimes when plotting those, 
>nice Moire patterns appeared.

Yes, Lissajous... these were the other major fun factor back then. Of
course I did not know what sine and cosine meant but at least I could
tweak and tweak and tweak :)

>> BTW I've found a great way of making tileable moire patterns in
>> PhotoShop so the good ole days are back <g>
>
>How do you do this ?

What is a moire pattern? The overlapping of two similar grids. Make a
grid (for example, create a pattern and fill the canvas with it),
distort it a little bit and mix it with the original. In order to make
the pattern cyclic, the distortion should be cyclic as well. The wave
distortion works well, just make sure that the wavelenghts are
divisible of the image dimensions and the edge pixels wrap around. The
mixing can be done as 'multiply', 'hard light' or virtually any other
mixing type. It gets even better if this is done for the r, g and b
channels separately.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] usanet
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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I was doing one of these couple years ago in POV-Ray, and I've seen some other
people did so too when the subject came up on AOL.  There were these "zonk"
posters you could buy back in the 70's which were the same thing except on
paper instead.  Much less vivid than this one here of course.
Must be a common side effect of dealing with AA, seems people will tend
exploit the weaknesses of something by turning it into a better thing.

Bob

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| I think this an interesting effect.
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| Almost fractal isn't it ?

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"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> If one continues to get interesting structures at many levels of
> magnification, this meets one most basic definition of a fractal.

Hmmm ... 

I believe the image itself is by your definition
a strange form for fractal.

But I think that this cannot be said to be 
an image OF a fractal, because the fractal 
patterns appear because of the limitations 
in the presentation of the striped sphere.


> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> > I think this an interesting effect.
> >
> > Almost fractal isn't it ?


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Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> I was doing one of these couple years ago in POV-Ray, 

Did you use the same technique ?


> and I've seen some other
> people did so too when the subject came up on AOL.  There were these "zonk"
> posters you could buy back in the 70's which were the same thing except on
> paper instead.  Much less vivid than this one here of course.

I don't think I've seen those posters. 

Stupid question but what is "zonk" ?
(I was too young in the 70's :)


> Must be a common side effect of dealing with AA, seems people will tend
> exploit the weaknesses of something by turning it into a better thing.

This time I just stumbled into these patterns.
And then I tried to make them as strong as 
possible.

I wonder if it's possible to make them even 
stronger ?


Tor Olav
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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> I have heard of moire pattern analysis being used in vibrational
> dynamics but can't say anything for sure.

Strange. If so, I wonder how it is applied.


> 17 years ago I was probably spending most of my days sitting on my
> bottom, building castles from wooden blocks.

:-)


> >Back then I did some experimenting with Lissajous
> >curves in 2D, and sometimes when plotting those,
> >nice Moire patterns appeared.
> 
> Yes, Lissajous... these were the other major fun factor back then. Of
> course I did not know what sine and cosine meant but at least I could
> tweak and tweak and tweak :)

My problem was that I didn't know back then that it 
was called Lissajous curves. 

I knew the meaning of cosine and sine.
But I too had to do a lot of tweaking 
to get the nice patterns !


> What is a moire pattern? The overlapping of two similar grids. Make a
> grid (for example, create a pattern and fill the canvas with it),
> distort it a little bit and mix it with the original. In order to make
> the pattern cyclic, the distortion should be cyclic as well. The wave
> distortion works well, just make sure that the wavelenghts are
> divisible of the image dimensions and the edge pixels wrap around. The
> mixing can be done as 'multiply', 'hard light' or virtually any other
> mixing type. It gets even better if this is done for the r, g and b
> channels separately.

I see. Thank you for explaining !

I have access to Photoshop, but I haven't 
worked much with it yet.


Tor Olav
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"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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| Bob Hughes wrote:
| >
| > I was doing one of these couple years ago in POV-Ray,
|
| Did you use the same technique ?

Overlapping 'radial' patterns of black lines rotated a bit differently over a
background plane of 'bozo' or other patterns.  Of course variations were
tried, like bright lines, etc. later on when the subject came up again.
I'd say your technique makes for a more true moire pattern.

| > and I've seen some other
| > people did so too when the subject came up on AOL.  There were these
"zonk"
| > posters you could buy back in the 70's which were the same thing except on
| > paper instead.  Much less vivid than this one here of course.
|
| I don't think I've seen those posters.
|
| Stupid question but what is "zonk" ?
| (I was too young in the 70's :)

I would define it as what the sound might be if you heard one when first
seeing it, but I don't really know the origin.  Ever seen Star Trek (TV) where
they had a display near Spock's control panel which was a couple sets of
radial lines rotated one over the other.  Same thing.  Guess they had that
effect in the '60s too.

| > Must be a common side effect of dealing with AA, seems people will tend
| > exploit the weaknesses of something by turning it into a better thing.
|
| This time I just stumbled into these patterns.
| And then I tried to make them as strong as
| possible.
|
| I wonder if it's possible to make them even
| stronger ?

Not sure how that would be, yours was quite bold already.

Bob

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