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Mapping textures
Motivation
You can model every tiny texture detail of a world using a vast number of colored faces
Takes a long time to write the VRML
Takes a long time to draw
Use a trick instead
Take a picture of the real thing
Paste that picture on the shape, like sticking on a decal
This technique is called
Texture Mapping