Project 3 Reflexive Essay

Here is a swatch of weathered limestone from a royalty-free site. It struck me as being similar to the NASA pictures of Mars from when they were trying to figure out whether Mars has enough water to support life as we know it.

http://www.public-domain-image.com/textures-and-patterns-public-domain-images-pictures/rock-stone-texture-public-domain-images-pictures/weathered-limestone-texture.jpg.html

I think it was with "The Mummy" that I first saw the power of digitally mapping a texture such as sand to a surface. It enables the writers to use a favorite comic-book trick: creating a bad guy by personifying an aspect of nature, here the predominant force of the desert.

In this poster of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and his not-so-friendly counterpart we see an interesting texture (especially noticeable in the legs) that either is or digitally mimics the fabric Tobey Maguire and his stunt-men wear when they portray Spider-Man, showing the filmmakers' concept of the material Peter would have chosen for his Spidey-suit.