oh, and yes. The bump map on those skins?
that's elmo.
that's right. I went there.

Skin as facade/mask, right?

So the logical jump to skin as hat makes sense, yeah? Now, the relationship changes from what happens above to below...

conditions that may happen above say, a river... precious ores... hot freaking magma. What are the implications for those skins then? and when it's one of those bubbly homogenous skins, where is the bottom/top and sides? Does it become something akin to the mobius strip...? oh... the possibilities...
...the complete lack of time