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Anything is constant colour if you dice it up into small enough pieces! :-)

• bee_rider 2y ago
  Is that necessarily the case for vector graphics? I actually don’t know how they define their colors. It seems intuitive enough to define a gradient using a function rather than discrete series, but I have no idea if anyone actually does that.
  • taylorius 2y ago
    They absolutely do define gradients via functions - but the point it, the screen only has a finite number of pixels. As I understood it, pixels is what this technique uses as it's dicing primitive. Pixel sized rectangles cut out of the polygon. Pixar's Renderman used to use a (slightly) related technique. This was along time ago, and I have no idea if they still do things this way - but they would subdivide patches until each primitive was smaller than a pixel.
• persnickety 2y ago
  The Mandelbrot set disagrees!