Solid Texture Synthesis from 2D Exemplars

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*** This is the accompanying video for our SIGGRAPH 2007 paper ***

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Title:
Solid Texture Synthesis from 2D Exemplars

Abstract:
We present a novel method for synthesizing solid textures from 2D texture exemplars. First, we extend optimization-based 2D texture synthesis to synthesize 3D texture solids. Next, the non-parametric texture optimization approach is integrated with histogram matching, which forces the global statistics of the synthesized solid to match those of the exemplar. This improves the convergence of the synthesis process and enables using smaller neighborhoods. In addition to producing compelling texture mapped surfaces, our method also effectively models the material in the interior of solid objects. We also demonstrate that our method is well-suited for synthesizing textures with a large number of channels per texel.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SIGGRAPH
• Graphics
• Solid
• Texture
• Synthesis

[faunflynn]

This is very interesting. Reminds me a bit of John Hart's texture mapping algorithm of a few yrs ago, but different. The subsurface scattering is especially nice.

[GeometrianGL]

Beautiful! Now, example code...