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From: Tom York
Subject: Re: Incongruity about normal Wrinkles?
Date: 9 Mar 2009 23:30:01
Message: <web.49b5ddabf0f85f587d55e4a40@news.povray.org>
Each time through the wrinkles normal calculation, the calculated perturbation
is forced positive using fabs(), and at the end is always added to the original
normal. This will introduce a gradient, but it's not clear to me how it could be
removed without altering the overall character of the wrinkles normal.


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Incongruity about normal Wrinkles?
Date: 10 Mar 2009 05:26:30
Message: <49b63246$1@news.povray.org>
"Carlo C." <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.49b59544f0f85f5868b24cc70@news.povray.org...
> And Dents:
>
> * 3.5.11.12  Dents
> When used as a normal pattern, this pattern uses a specialized normal
> perturbation function. *
>

And this is also said for waves and ripples....

Thomas


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Incongruity about normal Wrinkles?
Date: 10 Mar 2009 12:35:00
Message: <web.49b69667f0f85f58f708085d0@news.povray.org>
"Tom York" <alp### [at] zubenelgenubi34spcom> wrote:
> Each time through the wrinkles normal calculation, the calculated perturbation
> is forced positive using fabs(), and at the end is always added to the original
> normal. This will introduce a gradient, but it's not clear to me how it could be
> removed without altering the overall character of the wrinkles normal.

If the pertubation "amplitude" was known, shouldn't subtracting half of it do
the job?


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From: Tom York
Subject: Re: Incongruity about normal Wrinkles?
Date: 13 Mar 2009 22:50:00
Message: <web.49bb1aa4f0f85f587d55e4a40@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Tom York" <alp### [at] zubenelgenubi34spcom> wrote:
> > Each time through the wrinkles normal calculation, the calculated perturbation
> > is forced positive using fabs(), and at the end is always added to the original
> > normal. This will introduce a gradient, but it's not clear to me how it could be
> > removed without altering the overall character of the wrinkles normal.
>
> If the pertubation "amplitude" was known, shouldn't subtracting half of it do
> the job?

I will try it when I get time. I want to believe, but my instinct is to say that
it would only work if the perturbation function is linear.

Tom


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