Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> What would this conical mapping be like? I think it would be exactly the
> same as cylinderical(You can't wrap a rectangular image around a cone
> without distortion.).

Yup, that sounds about right. Like trying to map a rectangular image
onto a sphere and wanting to avoid it getting pinched at the poles.
Cylindrical or conical mapping; Either way, it's gotta come to a 
point somewhere if its on a cone.

There are two approaches to this problem, depending on the look the
poster wants... either accept that the map is going to shrink near
the top... a geometrically conical stack of bricks would have to 
have each brick cut to narrow approaching the top, and get smaller 
with each level anyway... or make a map of a single row of bricks 
and fit this to each in a stack of cylinders which just happen to 
get smaller near the top, making it more like a pseudo-cone out of 
ever narrowing rings of bricks, which to my mind would look more 
like what you'd be most likely to do if you were really trying to 
shape bricks into such a structure. 

Charles
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