Can I assign a bitmap to a material with out saving the image?

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

Let me search the old memory bitmap texture example I have somewhere. Posted I think twice to this forum.

edit: fun fact, you asked this before and I answered:

Possible define an image and assign to a material?

Hi guys, is it possible for me to define an image (from scratch, pixle by pixle) and assign that as a texture to a material? I was thinking in the same way an image file can be embedded into Rhino that maybe we could have “virtual” image files too. I would need this to make a “terrain shader” and I would prefer not to generate a png/bmp/jpeg and save it next to the Rhino file. Thanks!