painting scales...?

[dragotron]

is there a way to paint something onto a surface? For example create one scale and then paint thousands of them across a surface so they all follow the normals of the surface?

I was just thinking all the technology seems to be here for something like that…

[Kerwin]

Probably make the scale into a repeating (seamless) texture and then wrap that texture as a stencil would be a way to go.

There are tools to multiply seed images (such as a few scales) into seamless textures such as Luxology’s Imagesynth product.

-K