clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 01.01.2014 20:32, schrieb Mr:
> > Hi, is there anyway to predeclare a pattern (preferably with its
> > transformations) so that it can later be used equally within various normals or
> > pigments?
> >
> > Up to now I only managed to declare it as the one or the other.
> >
> > or maybe there is a way to fit a declared pigment inside a normal{} block?
>
> You can use a so-called "pigment function" (a function that gets its
> values from a pigment), and then use this function in a so-called
> "function pattern".

excuse me, but would you mind to post an example?  Didn't you rather mean use a
pattern function inside a pigment instead of the opposite?

the tricky thing is that a colormap is currently defined along with the pigment,
I expected it to just get ignored if it's irrelevent to the normal statement or
automatically converted to a grey scale.

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