Ross Taylor wrote:
> 
>     I have a wonderful picture of bark that I'd like to use as a texture
> in a scene... yet I couldn't find any way to do this.  Is there any way
> to make a JPEG a texture in POV-Ray (or any other picture format for
> that matter)?  If not, is there any other way that I could make a
> semi-convincing bark texture?
> 
> -Thanks in advance!

The official version of POV-Ray has no support for the jpg format. You
could however convert the jpg image into something lile a .tga image
file then use the image map pigment feature to apply your bark image
as a texture. I have had reasonable success using this method.

example -

pigment {
 image_map { tga "bark.tga" interpolate 2 }
}

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