John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> This could be seen as an alternative form of UV mapping, I suppose.

Actually, it is quite standard.  Assignment of uv coordinates
to mesh nodes is a standard feature of many mesh formats (OBJ,
for example), including the updated POV mesh format supported
in Kopp's Patched POV ( http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm ).
See http://nathan.kopp.com/meshes.htm for details, from which
the following example is an extract.  Note the "uv_vectors" specify
the coordinates -- thus your lizard's skin won't creep.

Dan
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  vertex_vectors
  {
    number_of_vertices,
    <vertex1>, <vertex2>, ...
  }
  normal_vectors
  {
    number_of_normals,
    <normal1>, <normal2>, ...
  }
  uv_vectors
  {
    number_of_uv_vectors,
    <uv_vect1>, <uv_vect2>, ...
  }
  texture_list
  {
    number_of_textures,
    texture { Texture1 },
    texture { Texture2 }, ...
  }
  face_indices
  {
    number_of_faces,
    <index_a, index_b, index_c>, [texture_index],
    <index_d, index_e, index_f>, [texture_index],
    ...
  }
  normal_indices
  {
    number_of_faces,
    <index_a, index_b, index_c>,
    <index_d, index_e, index_f>,
    ...
  }
  uv_indices
  {
    number_of_faces,
    <index_a, index_b, index_c>,
    <index_d, index_e, index_f>,
    ...
  }

  [object modifiers]
}            


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