I myself have researched leopard spots since I painted our toilet floor in them. It's a lead sheet, and the paint had worn off, which probably wasn't the healthiest thing. My housemates had filled the toilet with memorabilia from an African trip, so leopard-print paintjob it was.
Which entailed looking up leopardprint online. Very little of which actually looks like leopard rosettes, and now I have a problem with almost anything trying to pass itself off as leopardprint. Anyway, I can't say that my paintjob is a particularly good reproduction, but at least it's 'spiritually correct'... :)
They would be if you ran screaming from someone's living room because of the thing in the corner. I think it's because from a practical point of view its a different category of error?
