2.6.10 New Patterns
Nine new patterns are added and the crackle pattern has gained four new types. An overview:
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cells, fills 3D space with unit cubes. Each cube gets a random value from 0 to 1.
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crackle
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facets, is designed to be used as a normal. This pattern creates facets
by snapping normal vectors to the closest vectors in a perturbed grid of normal vectors.
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fractal
- The Mandelbrot set with exponents 2 up to 33.
- The equivalent Julia sets.
- The magnet1 and magnet2 fractals
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function, use functions to create your own patterns.
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image_pattern, instead of placing the color of the image on the object like an
image_map an image_pattern specifies an entire texture item (color,
pigment, normal or texture) based on the gray value at that point.
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object, generates a pattern based on a pre-declared object.
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pigment_pattern, use any pigment as a pattern.
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slope. The slope pattern uses the normal of a surface to calculate its slope.
It then creates the pattern dependent on the slope and optionally the altitude.
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function, takes a "snapshot" of a texture,
pattern or function and makes it available as if it where an image. Not a real pattern,
but listed here for convenience.