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From: menzies@altitude.CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Renderman
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.053015.19721@altitude.CAM.ORG>
Date: 1 Jun 90 05:30:15 GMT
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seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
> 
>Alot of the packages we have now support texture mapping of IFFs, but I'd like
>to see procedural texture-mapping, which is faster, and user definable. 

You might check out Impulse's TurboSilverSV. It already has several procedural
textures - angular, bricks, checks, disturbed (produces a bump map), grid,
layers, marble and wood. They render in fast solid model and raytrace.

Personally , I look forward to topographical bump mapping - bump maps that are
produced by reading the gray scale of an image. Simply put, a digitized  
texture can be mapped with some depth in it. The map cannot throw a shadow
(that's displacement mapping) but it will take specular hits - in 24 bit
this is a necessity , otherwise everything is plastic.

> 
>Sean

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Stephen Menzies
email: menzies@altitude.CAM.ORG