Image Maps

What's it all about?

As indicated before, to solve the basic Cosine shading equation

we need to figure out what the underlying color (k_s) is of the portion of the surface being viewed. Image maps (aka diffuse color maps, color maps, etc.) answer this question in terms of where that portion of the surface is on the larger object.

All the images shown in the "Categories" discussion are examples of Color Maps.

Other names: Diffuse Color maps, Image Maps, Surface Maps

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