Club Amiga de Montreal - CAM/CAM_CD_1.iso/files/546a.lha/park/park.README

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Well with all this talk about textures and image maps, I thought I'd toss
out this little tidbit. I just finished an article for Amazing Computing
on LightWave and I made a brief mention of a book by Phil Brodatz called
"Textures". It contains 112 image plates of a variety of textures including
rattan, wire mesh, lizard skin, burlap, bricks, sand, wood, marble,
plastic bubles, pebbles, etc, etc. They are all black and white images
but they still can be used to modulate bumps, diffuse lighting, transparency,
etc or you could colorize yourself if you reallly feel its necessary.
In fact, several of the images from Louis Markoya's Map Master are digitized
from this book and my understanding is that they are all 16 or 32 color
greymaps. I have uploaded the image I submitted to Amazing Computing for
the article to hubcap.clemson.edu for your perusal and can be found as:
/pub/amiga/incoming/IMAGINE/PICTURES/park.lzh. It uses grass, rattan,
and tree bark textures with diffuse lighting and bump image mapping. The
conversion to HAM was not the best but it still shows off the textures
(the 24bit version should be in the August issue of AC). Anyway, the book is
available from Dover Publications for a paltry $8.95, check it out.
park.ham is copyright 1991 Mark Thompson (for what its worth).
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