Pipes

Pipes are used throughout the Book of Beginings: see for instance The swing and Eve's morning. In fact, I've been using the same 7 pipe elements. While they were first assembled "manually" to form complex structures in older images, it was even easier to let a macro do the job.

Pipe elements

• pipeset.pov contains the first original pipe elements used in The swing.

MadPipe macro

• The MadPipe (madpipe.zip) macro generates a random pipe structure of a given size. Like in the famous Windows screensaver, the pipe starts at one point and then circulates in its containing box until a certain number of elements is reached.
• The macro reads a file containing decorative elements (more or less identical to those in pipeset.pov) and then puts these elements along the path. You can avoid putting decorative elements in the central zone of the container box.
• The macro can output to a file (recommended) so that you can use the file without having to run the macro again.
• The macro can create 3D pipes or 2D pipes (in the x-y plane)

Below are demonstration pictures generated by the testpipe1.pov and testpipe2.pov scene files.

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