Date:         Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:25:38 +0000
From: Nigel Denton-Howes <ndhowes@3DILLUSION.COM>
Organization: Perfect Perspective Services
Subject:      Re: [IML] WEB: Web page update

>>>> Nigel,
    I particularly like some of your architectural renderings.  One
    has
raised a question which I wonder how the group would handle.  Your
wood panelled ceiling appears to be a series of boards except the
grain pattern crosses all boards instead of being different for each
board.  Does anyone have a quick reasonable solution for hardwood
floors or wooden board composed objects?  I think I have seen a
tutorial on floorboards somewhere but I have not checked it out yet.
Pod Man http://www.erinet.com/fnadoc/index.htm <<<<


Hey there,

Glad you liked the images. :)  Yes, there are several ways to fix
that ceiling problem, the easiest is to simply set the size of the
hardwood texture to say 1 in X and Y and 100 in Z, this produces a
very elongated texture which, when added to the board-type thing,
produces very separate looking pieces of wood.  The rendering in
question is actually a fairly old one.. about 8 months (old for me,
I've only been doing this for a year) and I've since moved on a
little.  I guess I really _should_ fix it up though =P

The tutorial you're thinking of can be found on Kathryn Fosten's web
page, here:  http://www.space.net.au/~transtech/


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Date:         Fri, 2 Jan 1998 22:21:02 +0400
From: Charles Blaquiere <blaq@INTERLOG.COM>
Subject:      Re: [IML] WEB: Web page update
To: IMAGINE@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
X-UIDL: 2652d6a1f1f22c14c759e009dc635c35

This idea can be applied to many types of repeating, architectural
objects, like brick walls, office buildings, and the like. Just create 4
subgroups, making sure no two neighboring (wood boards, bricks, windows)
belong to the same group (*), then apply a slightly-different copy of
the same texture to each subgroup.

(*) There's a mathematical theorem that proves you only need 4 different
colors (in this case, subgroups) to color a 2D arrangement of shapes so
that no shape is next to one of the same color.

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