In article <3A82D6C5.5905212B@ucdavis.edu>, Ryan Constantine 
<rcc### [at] ucdavisedu> wrote:

>> I am a purist at heart and hate image_maps so I feel the site should only
>> contain procedural textures.
>
>how is it that procedural textures are more 'pure' than imagemaps? 

In my case, I always prefer procedural textures to imagemaps *if* the 
imagemaps are not straight lines. This is because procedural textures 
can be resized with less distortion than imagemaps, and I tend to render 
my images at many sizes. In the sense that with a procedural texture I 
do not have to worry later on if I blow up the rendering, procedural 
textures are "more pure".

>aren't they both art?  isn't the idea to make the best image as
>possible?  why is a limited toolbox better than a full one?  do
>mechanics try to fix cars with only cresent wrenches?

I think the better example would be, do mechanics keep both a fixed-size 
crescent wrench set and an adjustable crescent wrench in their toolbox? 
In some cases, a mechanic might not be able to afford a crescent wrench 
for all sizes, just as we cannot always find a procedural texture that 
does the same thing as an imagemap. But if we can find the 
correctly-sized fixed crescent wrench (the procedural texture that does 
the same thing as the imagemap), it is clearly the better choice.

Jerry
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