The Fan Spiral procedural texture produces a spiral pattern of gradient shapes (figure 1).


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Figure 1: The Fan Spiral texture applied to a Diffuse material on a plane primitive


Fan Spiral Parameters

Time - Animates the fan spiral effect.

Spin - Specifies the amount of spin or rotation for the fan gradients.

Arc Count - Determines the number of fan gradients.

Transform - Positions, scales, and rotates the surface texture.

Projection - Sets how the texture projects onto the surface.