Tile-based interactive texture design

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel interactive texture design scheme based on the tile optimization and image composition. Given a small example texture, the design process starts with applying an optimized sample patches selection operation to the example texture to obtain a set of sample patches. Then a set of ω-tiles are constructed from these patches. Local changes to those tiles are further made by composing their local regions with the texture elements or objects interactively selected from other textures or normal images. Such select-compose process is iterated many times until the desired ω-tiles are obtained. Finally the tiles are tiled together to form a large texture. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique can be used for designing a large variety of versatile textures from a single small example texture, increasing or decreasing the decreasing the density of texture elements, as well as for synthesizing textures from multiple sources. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.