Khai-J-Bach opened this issue on Aug 20, 2002 ยท 19 posts
ockham posted Tue, 20 August 2002 at 11:01 PM
Two reasons for not adding veins to standard figures: 1. Veins are highly random, even between the two sides of one human. To make them realistic would require some kind of fractal "growing" mechanism. Otherwise the effect of identical veins would be more disturbing (though perhaps subliminal) than the lack of any veins! 2. Veins show when the arm or leg is down, and disappear when raised. Realism would require some mechanism to account for gravity. Textures can't do this. Generally, it's better to leave something out of a representation, or to suggest it vaguely, than to put it in with too much rigid realism. But I do agree that extensor tendons would be a good addition, and would be easy enough to control mathematically.