2.6.10  New Patterns

Nine new patterns are added and the crackle pattern has gained four new types. An overview:

• cells, fills 3D space with unit cubes. Each cube gets a random value from 0 to 1.
• crackle
• form
• metric
• offset
• solid
• 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.
• fractal
• The Mandelbrot set with exponents 2 up to 33.
• The equivalent Julia sets.
• The magnet1 and magnet2 fractals
• function, use functions to create your own patterns.
• 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.
• object, generates a pattern based on a pre-declared object.
• pigment_pattern, use any pigment as a pattern.
• 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.
• 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.