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- | Texture Garden textures
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- | This directory contains a large number of demonstration textures designed to
- | be used in conjunction with the Texture Garden program. They are all plain
- | text files. To examine the textures they produce, load Texture Garden and
- | drag the files into its main window.
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- | Contents
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- | 3D. These are made by sculpting a surface from a solid block of texture.
- | Most of them are designed to tesellate seamlessly when wrapped around
- | spheres.
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- | Dust: These are named after a technique employed in their generation. They
- | often look as though they are heavily dithered.
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- | FFT_1D and FFT_2D: Again, named after techniques employed in their
- | generation, these demonstrate the main techniques used in texture generation
- | by the program. Beginners start here. One dimensional fourier transforms
- | often produce images that look wavey, while two dimensional transforms are
- | probably the most powerful technique employed, producing a gigantic range of
- | impressive patterns which animate in interesting ways. However, they cost in
- | germination time, especially when grown to large sizes. Please be warned
- | that the filenames here do not make much sense.
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- | Filtering: These are some textures that use filtering techniques. These are
- | sometimes used to simulate lightsourcing.
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- | Flowers: A technique quite different to those used in most other textures.
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- | Invariant: These textures do not scale when displayed on different scales.
- | This can make them useful as backgrounds.
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- | Mandala: Textures often employing mirrors or rotation to produce symmetry
- | effects.
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- | Misc: These textures did not fit into the other categories. They are often
- | less aesthetically pleasing.\
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- | WWW: These are just a few of the images that I used in creating the web site
- | from which Texture Garden has been made available.
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- | Enjoy.
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- | © Tim Tyler 1996.
- | tim@varuna.demon.co.uk
- | http://www.varuna.demon.co.uk/tmc
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