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From: Jens Strohmeyer
Subject: Zebra-look
Date: 22 Aug 2000 21:33:56
Message: <39A32A24.AD11F1C5@tu-bs.de>
Hello out there...
I'd  like to know how to create a "Zebra-look" texture
which I want to apply to an object.
Might spotted color maps be a possible solution to my problem ?
Don't have much experience with them so far.
Can anyone help me ?  Thx in advance !
Jens


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From: Mark Gordon
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 22 Aug 2000 22:16:34
Message: <39A334DC.33713707@mailbag.com>
Jens Strohmeyer wrote:
> 
> Hello out there...
> I'd  like to know how to create a "Zebra-look" texture
> which I want to apply to an object.
> Might spotted color maps be a possible solution to my problem ?
> Don't have much experience with them so far.
> Can anyone help me ?  Thx in advance !
> Jens

One of the problems in generating a realistic zebra-stripe texture is
that the stripes vary over different parts of their bodies.  If you want
something realistic, check the following:
Turing, A.M. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, Phil. Trans. R. Soc.
London B 237 pp 37-72 (1952)
Everything since derives from it.  Hopefully others in this newsgroup
will recognize the author (yes, that A.M. Turing).

For something less than realism, there should be ways to fake it.  Now,
properly texturing an animated zebra becomes much trickier, as it
requires UV-mapping or something along those lines.  3-D procedural
textures are designed more for things like marble and wood that don't
bend like hide does.

-Mark Gordon


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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 23 Aug 2000 04:34:26
Message: <39a38c92$1@news.povray.org>
"Jens Strohmeyer" <j.s### [at] tu-bsde> wrote in message
news:39A32A24.AD11F1C5@tu-bs.de...
> Hello out there...
> I'd  like to know how to create a "Zebra-look" texture
> which I want to apply to an object.
> Might spotted color maps be a possible solution to my problem ?
> Don't have much experience with them so far.
> Can anyone help me ?  Thx in advance !
> Jens

I think there is a nice zebra on Gilles T's site
(http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/english/gtp193e.htm ).

You'd have to contact him to find out how he did the pattern.


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From: Christophe Bouffartigue
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 23 Aug 2000 06:31:50
Message: <39A3A816.1AE8108D@nanterre.marelli.fr>
Tom Melly wrote:
> 
> I think there is a nice zebra on Gilles T's site
> (http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/english/gtp193e.htm ).
> 
> You'd have to contact him to find out how he did the pattern.

I can't speak for Gilles, but these zebras are poser models (as he said
in the description of this image)...

But in this one...

http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/francais/gtp133.htm

...he actually did the zebra texture...


Bouf.


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From: Christophe Bouffartigue
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 23 Aug 2000 07:12:03
Message: <39A3B17E.6F23249B@nanterre.marelli.fr>
Christophe Bouffartigue wrote:
> 
> 
> http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/francais/gtp133.htm

oops, the english version...

http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/english/gtp133e.htm

Bouf.


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 23 Aug 2000 08:24:20
Message: <39A3C142.D4B2B548@my-dejanews.com>
Could one simply apply turbulence to a black and white gradient pattern.

Experts: whip one up for us, please.

Jens Strohmeyer wrote:

> Hello out there...
> I'd  like to know how to create a "Zebra-look" texture
> which I want to apply to an object.
> Might spotted color maps be a possible solution to my problem ?
> Don't have much experience with them so far.
> Can anyone help me ?  Thx in advance !
> Jens


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 23 Aug 2000 08:27:42
Message: <chrishuff-4D8DC8.07290523082000@news.povray.org>
In article <39A334DC.33713707@mailbag.com>, mtg### [at] povrayorg wrote:

> For something less than realism, there should be ways to fake it.  Now,
> properly texturing an animated zebra becomes much trickier, as it
> requires UV-mapping or something along those lines.  3-D procedural
> textures are designed more for things like marble and wood that don't
> bend like hide does.

You should be able to UV-map procedural textures too...
Maybe if some kind of spotted pattern(not THE spotted pattern, but any 
pattern which produces spots) were stretched out and turbulated...maybe 
even "checker" would work.

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From: Chuck Roberts
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 24 Aug 2000 08:54:32
Message: <39A51BCF.BF306FD9@accn.org>
I would think using a radial pattern on a plane (if that's
possible) using the colors black and white, then mapping that
plane onto a zebra shape.

Jens Strohmeyer wrote:
> 
> Hello out there...
> I'd  like to know how to create a "Zebra-look" texture
> which I want to apply to an object.
> Might spotted color maps be a possible solution to my problem ?
> Don't have much experience with them so far.
> Can anyone help me ?  Thx in advance !
> Jens

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From: Peter Warren
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 4 Apr 2001 23:42:55
Message: <3acbe9bf@news.povray.org>
Here I am plodding along in the far out uncharted backwaters
of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the
Galaxy (and doing, just fine, thank you very much) and suddenly...

I just *can't* live without a Zebra texture.

Oh, the humanity.

Peter
war### [at] hotmailcom


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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: Zebra-look
Date: 5 Apr 2001 09:46:03
Message: <slrn9cotot.f0s.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:42:37 -0700, Peter Warren wrote:
>I just *can't* live without a Zebra texture.

Maybe if you sweet-talk Gilles...

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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