Alain <aze### [at] qwertygov> wrote:
> Summit Group nous apporta ses lumieres ainsi en ce 15/06/2004 15:32... :

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> >Notice how the image map gets streched as though it was applied head on. The
> >
> Because it is. Use UV maping to make it follow the surface of the object.

Can you include an example of how to do this? Where would I look in the
documentation? I did some more examples, and I can understand the problem.

> You can scale the image to your object: image_map {jpeg
> "07-2312-482.jpg" map_type 0 scale<5,5,1>}

This part worked out great! Thanks to both yourself and Jerome for the help.

> Think of any texture as an infinite solid out of whitch you carve out
> whatever object you apply it to. In the case of an image_map, each image
> pixel stretch out infinitely along the z axis.

That is indeed the case based on the tests that I've done. Here's the
example of a cube that I built to see how I could apply the image map:

#version 3.5;

#include "colors.inc"

global_settings {
  assumed_gamma 1.0
}

// ----------------------------------------

camera {
  location  <3.0, 0.5, -4.0>
  direction 1.5*z
  right     x*image_width/image_height
  look_at   <0.0, 0.0,  0.0>
}


sky_sphere {
  pigment {
     gradient y
    color_map {
      [0.0 rgb <0.6,0.7,1.0>]
      [0.7 rgb <0.0,0.1,0.8>]
    }
  }
}

light_source {
  <0, 0, 0>            // light's position (translated below)
  color rgb <1, 1, 1>  // light's color
  translate <-30, 30, -30>
}

plane {
  y, -1
  pigment { color rgb <0.7,0.5,0.3> }
}

box {
  <0,0,0>, <1, 1, 1>
  texture {
    pigment {
      image_map {jpeg "02-7693-211.jpg"}
    }
    finish{
      specular 0.6
    }
  }
}


Ron.

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