Marc Schimmler wrote in message <36D417D3.9980B783@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>...
>Has anybody made a texture in POV that comes close to that one or this
>just a feature these $$$$$$-programms provide?
>
>Maybe we should skip the grass for a few days and start a competition on
>skin texture!



I was just musing over that today.  I don't have any skills in creating
fancy POV textures myself, but I was thinking that material on "wax museum"
figures might help.  The reason wax figures look so real is because the wax
is translucent and the color permiates, in the same manner as skin.  This is
as opposed to being painted on the surface.  So, information on working in
wax -- what colors to blend, what layers to deposit, what surface texture to
stipple on, and so forth could be translated into POV simulations.

--John

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Marc Schimmler wrote in message <36D4203C.9DA25F57@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>...

>
>Due to the inhuman work of searching through all your postings I found
>it:
>
>22nd November 1998: Image_Map Textures
>


Which group was it in?

Gail
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Which group was it in?
> 
> Gail
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This list adds 9 more links to the one I posted previously.
I haven't checked them all lately so there may be a bad link or two but
enjoy what's there.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rmr/
http://www.afterlife.de/mitte.htm
http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/texture/
http://axem2.simplenet.com/heading.htm
http://texlib.povray.org/textures.html
http://www.serious3d.com/freemain.shtml
http://home.HiWAAY.net/~nholmes/planets/
http://www.dreamsandmagic.com/texturs.htm
http://www.gfxzone.com/texture/Hutexure.htm
http://207.201.189.251/graphics/textures.htm
http://www.yi.com/home/HickingGarvin/other.htm
http://members.xoom.com/phillean/wood/wood.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Center/1334/
ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/0rfelyus/
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/textures/aindex.html
http://sunhe.jinr.dubna.su/textbin/normal/textures.pl
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/abbey/78/texindex.html
http://www.forrest.cz/scripts/textures/Texturesmain.pl?p=0&r=3&s=3

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Ken Tyler

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Marc Schimmler <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:

>I think it has been recommended by Dan Connelly. What caught my eye was
>the skin texture of the 3D character Bill Fleming has posted there. This
>one is really close to the real world (look at the areas close to the
>eyes).

BTW, Bill Fleming is quite interested in getting some POV-Ray tutorial works
into Serious 3D. So you may see some POV stuff up there some day ;)

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Take a look at http://miralabs.unige.ch
They have some interesting stuff about creating skin textures. They also
research simulating hair, clothes etc.
And it seems they really like Marilyn Monroe...

Margus

Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> I just took a look at the interesting site
> 
> http://www.komodostudio.com/
> 
> (BTW this one's is terrible slow).
> 
> I think it has been recommended by Dan Connelly. What caught my eye was
> the skin texture of the 3D character Bill Fleming has posted there. This
> one is really close to the real world (look at the areas close to the
> eyes).
> 
> Any idea how he did that?
> 
> Has anybody made a texture in POV that comes close to that one or this
> just a feature these $$$$$$-programms provide?
> 
> Maybe we should skip the grass for a few days and start a competition on
> skin texture!
> 
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> Take a look at http://miralabs.unige.ch
> They have some interesting stuff about creating skin textures. They also
> research simulating hair, clothes etc.
> And it seems they really like Marilyn Monroe...
> 
> Margus

When I try to use this link Netscape says no DNS entry. Is it a typo?

Marc
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Sorry. http://miralabwww.unige.ch

margus

Marc Schimmler wrote:
 
> When I try to use this link Netscape says no DNS entry. Is it a typo?
> 
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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Marc Schimmler wrote:
>> Maybe we should skip the grass for a few days and start a competition on
>> skin texture!

  The February 1999 issue of Computer Graphics World features cover art
rendered by Digital Domain ("Titanic"). The face uses a bump map texture
created by an inked impression of an actual person's face. The online image
at CGW's site does not do justice to the actual published cover art of the
magazine (it's pretty good).

http://www.cgw.com/cgw/Archives/1999/02toc1.asp

- Alan
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Alan Kong wrote:
> 
>   The February 1999 issue of Computer Graphics World features cover art
> rendered by Digital Domain ("Titanic"). The face uses a bump map texture
> created by an inked impression of an actual person's face. The online image
> at CGW's site does not do justice to the actual published cover art of the
> magazine (it's pretty good).
> 
> http://www.cgw.com/cgw/Archives/1999/02toc1.asp
> 
> - Alan

This is even better than the one from Bill Fleming. I just stared on it
for a minute or so. I see a project rising at the horizon (Oh yeah, so
much do to ... and no time left!)

Thank you!

Marc
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Marc Schimmler wrote:
>> This is even better than the one from Bill Fleming. I just stared on it
>> for a minute or so. I see a project rising at the horizon (Oh yeah, so
>> much do to ... and no time left!)

  You might consider starting with a finger or a hand first. Evenly applying
ink to one's face and trying to 'roll' this image smoothly onto a long sheet
of paper will probably take several tries <g>.

- Alan

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