Source: pst-marble.tex, pst-marble.sty, pst-marble.pro
Author: Aubrey Jaffer
Maintainers: Jürgen Gilg, Manuel Luque
Info: Draw marble-like patterns with PSTricks
License: LPPL 1.3c
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# Short description #
The mathematical fascination with *ink marbling* is that while rakings across
the tank stretch and deform the ink boundaries, they do not break or change
the topology of the surface. With mechanical guides, a raking can be undone
by reversing the motion of the rake to its original position.
Raking is thus a physical manifestation of a homeomorphism, a continuous
function between topological spaces (in this case between a topological space
and itself) that has a continuous inverse function.
The package comes with 15 predefined *basic actions* like:
