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Real-Time Texture Synthesis Using s-Tile Set

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This paper presents a novel method of generating a set of texture tiles from samples, which can be seamlessly tiled into arbitrary size textures in real-time. Compared to existing methods, our approach is simpler and more advantageous in eliminating visual seams that may exist in each tile of the existing methods, especially when the samples have elaborate features or distinct colors. Texture tiles generated by our approach can be regarded as single-colored tiles on each orthogonal direction border, which are easier for tiling and more suitable for sentence tiling. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China

    Feng Xue, You-Sheng Zhang, Min Hu, Xin-Dong Wu & Rong-Gui Wang

  2. School of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Anqing Teachers College, Anqing, 246011, China

    Ju-Lang Jiang

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 05405, U.S.A.

    Xin-Dong Wu

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60575023), National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20050359012), the Major Research Project of Natural Science Foundation of Higher Education Institution of Anhui Province (KJ2007A122ZC) and Science Research and Development Foundation of Hefei University of Technology of China (Grant No. 060504F).

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Xue, F., Zhang, YS., Jiang, JL. et al. Real-Time Texture Synthesis Using s-Tile Set. J Comput Sci Technol 22, 590–596 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-007-9072-0

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