On 3/21/2023 5:38 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Op 21-3-2023 om 03:42 schreef Josh English:
>> I solved this problem a couple of years ago with my "Portland Burns" 
>> image. The hard drive with all my code died and I can't seem to 
>> recreate it.
>>
>> The idea is to create a texture map that allows for a transition 
>> between two other textures with a transition zone in-between. A quick 
>> sketch:
>>
>> box {
>>    <0, 0, 0>, <1, 1, 0>
>>    texture {
>>        planar
>>        texture_map {
>>          [clock-0.01 Final_Texture ]
>>          [clock-0.01 Transition_Texture ]
>>          [clock Transition_Texture ]
>>          [clock Clear_Texture ]
>> }}}
>>
>> But if I scale this texture or add turbulence on the outer texture, 
>> the inner textures are also scaled or transformed.
>>
>> I swear I had pulled this off before but I can't suss it this time.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Josh English
> 
> Interesting question.
> 
> What about warp{} ? I didn't test this but what if you do a first 
> transformation within a warp statement /before/ the texture_map {} and a 
> second warp statement /after/ the texture_map{}, reversing somehow your 
> earlier warp transformation. Somehow, it seems not to make any sense at 
> all but who knows...
> 
> Something else I was thinking was to make those reverse transformations 
> (within a warp or not by the way) to the inside textures individually, 
> and then apply the correct transformations to the outside texture? No 
> idea if that would do what you want...
> 
I had tried those and they simply didn't work. Chris R has the trick I 
had forgotten.

Thanks, though.

Now I can try to move on to the next part of the over-designed project : )

-- Josh

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