A Comparison Study of Four Texture Synthesis Algorithms on Regular and Near-regular Textures

Wen-Chieh Lin, James H. Hays, Chenyu Wu, Vivek Kwatra, and Yanxi Liu

SIGGRAPH 2004 Poster.

Abstract

In this report, we compare the performance of four texture synthesis algorithms on synthesizing regular and near-regular textures. Our results show that near-regular texture synthesis remains a challenging problem. This is because a near-regular texture demonstrates both global regularity and local randomness in its texture pattern. It is difficult to preserve both properties in the synthetic textures. The comparison indicates that a specially-designed texture synthesis algorithm that respects the nature of near-regular textures can produce more faithfully synthesized textures than general-purpose state-of-the-art synthesis algorithms.

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