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12 Aug 2024 07:23:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: pigment remapping  
From: Dave Matthews
Date: 1 Oct 2003 17:30:01
Message: <web.3f7b46d92885ef9010dd5cfd0@news.povray.org>
Anton Sherwood wrote:
>This is adapted from the code provided for me by Mike Williams in p.a-u
>(thread "arbitrary remapping").  In the left sphere, the -z pole is in
>the bigger of the two tiny red triangles.  The pigment of that sphere is
>conformally mapped twice around the right sphere, resulting in
>distortions of size but preservation of local angle; you can see two
>copies of everything that surrounds that polar spot (which is much
>magnified, and now has six corners instead of three).
>
>--
>Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
>

Nice.  I really like that illustration of conformal mapping.  It gives me a
lot of ideas about similar applications.

Dave Matthews


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