At CGSD we have created the
ultimate tiling tool that can tile almost anything - low frequency, high
frequency, homogenous or chaotic. Unlike some other tiling tools, AutoTile
does not do seam welding which makes images smoothly tile but leaves behind
ugly smudged areas that look unnatural and require hours of work to clean up.
This image is from a photograph of clay. Tiling this by hand in photoshop would
take hours. Trying to generate this synthetically with some other tool would
also take hours. But with our AutoTile tool, a seamless tile is made in under
a minute.
Click here to see how poorly this tiles before AutoTile is applied
Here is the tilable result We left the white highlight in so that you can see it repeat. This is a low frequency image and rather difficult to tile by hand. The AutoTile Tool did it no problem. (See How it Tiles!)
From this source photo at left we
were able to make a tilable beach pattern in a short amount of time.
The AutoTile tool allows for tiling in one or two directions as appropriate.
Here is a miniature of our beach pattern tiled twice. It was taken from our RealTexture Library which contains 1000 patterns.
Take this road to the beach! The road also comes from the library
and is shown here, tiled twice.
The black and white photo at left shows
how the CGSD RealTexture Tools work together. This black and white image
underwent perspective correction, tiling
and then colorization using the Color
Correction Tool. The result is shown below.
(Click on sand image to see it tile)
Enough with the Nature Scenes, Show Me Something Fun!
Just for fun we tiled this image that comes with Adobe Photoshop for color calibration. Notice there are no seams or welding artifacts in the low frequency area of the background cloth, and few in the high contrast areas. The image on the right is the tiled 2x2 and slightly reduced in scale. Click on it to see the whole window tiled.
Other Demos [Dehaze] [Perspective] [Color Correction] [Synthesis]
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