"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| It doesn't have anything to do with UV mapping, and I don't see how UV
| mapping could be applied to this problem, unless you mean by using an
| image_map or material_map to specify the areas with "patina".
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| Are you thinking of a possible way to use this kind of thing to control
| UV mapping? So that the map is adjusted over the contours of the surface
| of the object?

I was using the term uv map loosely to describe what I thought might closely
resemble what your stuff was doing.  That is, following the surfaces of objects
and their normals.  Again I say I'm not knowledgeable enough about any of it I
was just trying to get the sense of what was going on and if there were any
potential of it being more pigment pattern-like than it appeared to be.
Instead of scattering points on a surface maybe spreading the texture on like a
second skin.  If that makes any sense.  It's of course impossible if there isn't
any way to follow the original object precisely and deform it from there I
suppose.

Nice try at explaining it, I got closer than ever at understanding you.

Bob

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