texture-generator

Procedural Equirectangular Textures

Photosphere

This texture renderes the convection cells of plasma on the surface of a star. These granules are a phenomenon of the photosphere. The generated texture is intended for color maps. Click on a snapshot to open it online.

Code example

Code template of parameters with their default values.

import * as PET from "pet/patterns/photosphere.js";
:
model.material.map = PET.texture( );
PET.material( model.material );

Parameters

The parameters of the texture generator are:

• width – texture width in pixels, default 1024
• height – texture height in pixels, default 512
• scale – pattern size [0,100], default 30
• color – color of hot areas, default 0xFFFF00 (yellow)
• background – color of background, default 0xFF0000 (red)

API

All texture modules share the same API.

• pattern( x, y, z, color, options ) – pattern implementation
• texture( {params} ) – generator for a texture with given parameters
• defaults – object with default parameters
• material( ... ) – material shader patcher

Online generator

online/photosphere.html

Source

src/patterns/photosphere.js

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