Leef_me nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/12/18 16:36:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> Leef_me nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/12/18 02:42:
>>> "Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Tim, that works a treat.
> 
>> When you scale a spherical pattern, all points move acording to the origin.
>> What you need is to use a warp{spherical} after the scaling.
>> Your image_map become:
>> #declare bulb = material {
>>               texture {
>>          pigment { image_map { jpeg "Dime_front.jpg" map_type 0
>> //Use a planar maping
>>           scale 0.01
>> warp{spherical} // Wrap it around the sphere
>>   }
>>     }
>>    }
>> }
>> Now, your image get repeated 100 times around the circumference and 50 times
>> from one pole to the other.
>> --
>> Alain
> 
> Thanks Alain but, that doesn't compile; the following does:
> 
> #declare bulb = material {
>               texture {
>          pigment { image_map { jpeg "Dime_front.jpg" map_type 0
> //Use a planar maping
>          }
>           scale 0.7
> warp{spherical} // Wrap it around the sphere
> }
>    }
> }
> 
> I didn't ask very well, but what I really wanted to do was a a single copy of an
> image, scaled as desired, but still showing the 'bulb' similar to the bulb that
> is closest to the camera.
> 
> Leef_me
> 
> 
In that case, just add "once" for the image_map. Now, you use rotate to place 
the image where you want it.

-- 
Alain
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