I don't know what it's intended to be, but the top of the VMS texture is not made of poles like a teepee. It is much more similar to medieval drawings of winds or waters that are whooshing out of mouths or other kinds of openings.
The texture doesn't look like skins, either. Teepee skins are not scaly, nor are they layered in concentric rings.
And I've never seen a teepee with regularly spaced holes or circles, like a deliberate pattern.
The texture doesn't look like skins, either. Teepee skins are not scaly, nor are they layered in concentric rings.
And I've never seen a teepee with regularly spaced holes or circles, like a deliberate pattern.