Procedural Texture Matching and Transformation

We present a technique for creating a smoothly varying sequence of procedural textures that interpolates between arbitrary input samples of texture. This texture transformation uses a library of procedural shaders and selects the correct shaders and associated parameters to accomplish the task. In general, selecting a procedural texture from a library, or finding the correct parameters to produce a smooth texture transition can be complex and time consuming. We propose a strategy for automating this process. While superficially this problem appears intractable for both humans and computational systems, its natural characteristics make a computational solution feasible. We present an algorithm and experimental results demonstrating this approach. Transformation between two textures can then be achieved procedurally, while enforcing perceptual similarity constraints between adjacent texture frames. We describe a technique for efficiently sampling the parameter domain of a shader based o...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: CGF
• Authors: Eric Bourque, Gregory Dudek
• Keywords: CGF 2004, Procedural Texture, Shaders, Smooth Texture Transition