Java3D Tutorial Jenny Orr, Willamette University

Textures

• The detail that characterizes the surface color and texture of many objects is difficult to model simply using polygons.
• Instead, we approximate by "pasting" a 2D image onto the surface.
• The brick shown below is an example. On the left is the 2D image.

Texture Coordinates	Textured Object

• See texture demo

• Code snippet for loading texture