1. A method for rendering a 2-D resolution-dependent raster image applied to a 3-D surface-modeled object, comprising: mapping a 2-D raster image to a portion of a 2-D parametric map of a 3-D object; rendering the 3-D surface as a 2-D vector resolution-independent output; and mapping the mapped raster image from the 2-D parametric map to the 2-D vector resolution-independent output.