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Texture mapping and bump mapping are computer techniques to make images seem more realistic to observers. There is not enough computer power to model a wall in a house, with its irregularities and discolorizations, to make it appear "real" on a computer screen. Thus, the technique of texture mapping or bump mapping is applied to the graphics rendering of the wall to make it look more realistic. Examples include: earth.c readtex.c earth_small.rgb a binary file The earth_small is stored as a flat 2D colored image is wrapped around a sphere using texture mapping. checker.c An internally computer checker board pattern is texture mapped onto a cube and the cube is shown from two views. teapots.c teapots.jpg teapots includes both lighting and texturing, which are both closely related to how people interpret, visualize, the display of graphical objects. Some times you may need terrain or a forest. See the skyfly subdirectory on the distributed CD. The authors created a file with the terrain of mountains and valleys. Some scenes are best created using fractals. An example of one tree, one of many shapes based on numeric parameters: fractal.c X Windows fractalgl.c OpenGL Fractal.java Java The above can be used with a random number generator on position and parameters to compute a forest background.
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