That did it, thank you

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:52:16 +0100, Mike Williams
<nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:

>Wasn't it Noam L. who wrote:
>>I'm trying to move a sphere in an animation, and I notice that the
>>checkers pattern doesn't "stick" to the sphere.
>>I tried using uv_mapping but then only the first color of the checker
>>is used as the pigment of the sphere.
>>
>>How do I move a sphere and make the initial checkers pattern "stick"
>>to it?
>
>
>  texture {uv_mapping pigment {checker} scale <0.1, 0.147> }
>
>With uv_mapping, the part of the texture that would normally cover the
>square from <0,0> to <1,1> is mapped to the whole surface, even if the
>sphere is much larger than that. But for the checker pattern, each of
>the coloured checkers is a 1x1 square, so to see any pattern you need to
>scale down.
>
>[Because the pattern is in uv-space instead of xyz-space, only the first
>two dimensions of scaling are meaningful.]

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