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Hexagon

The hexagon pattern is a block pattern that generates a repeating pattern of hexagons in the x-y-plane. In this instance imagine tall rods that are hexagonal in shape and are parallel to the y-axis and grouped in bundles like shown in the example image. Three separate colors should be specified as follows:

pigment{hexagon [COLOR_1 [, COLOR_2 [, COLOR_3]]] [PATTERN_MODIFIERS...] }

The hexagon pattern.

The three colors will repeat the hexagonal pattern with hexagon COLOR_1 centered at the origin, COLOR_2 in the +z-direction and COLOR_3 to either side. Each side of the hexagon is one unit long. The hexagonal rods of color extend infinitely in the +y- and -y-directions. If no colors are specified then default blue, green and red colors are used.

You may also use pigment statements in place of the colors. For example:

  pigment {

    hexagon pigment { Jade },

            pigment { White_Marble },

            pigment { Black_Marble }

  }

This example uses normals:

  normal { hexagon 0.5 }

The float value is an optional bump size. You may also use full normal statements. For example:

  normal {

    hexagon

      normal { gradient x scale .2 },

      normal { gradient y scale .2 },

      normal { bumps scale .2 }

  }

When used with textures, the syntax is...

  texture {

    hexagon

      texture { T_Gold_3A },

      texture { T_Wood_3A },

      texture { Stone12 }

  }

This is a block pattern which cannot use wave types, color_map, or slope_map modifiers.



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