That pigment statement has been standing out like a sore thumb, because we haven’t really talked about it yet. What’s the point of having a whole section for pigment if the only thing we can put in there are colors? In fact, we can do quite a bit more. Pigments can contain patterns.
- Tinted transparency
- Let’s start with something simple first. Our colors have so far contained three numbers: one for red, one for green, and one for blue. There is a fourth number in colors as well. It stands for filter and is assumed to be zero if it isn’t specified. Change your “color green” to:
- More about pigments: Patterns
- Pigment sections truly come into their own when we start using patterns with them. Patterns allow you to have the color vary from point to point according to, well, a pattern. There is a checkered pattern, a brick pattern, an onion pattern, as well as stranger patterns such as a bozo pattern and a crackle pattern. There are, in fact, many different patterns you can use. We’re going to look at two right now. The first is the cylindrical pattern,…
