HE Gaoqi, PAN Zhigeng. Wang Tiles Based Bi-direction Texture Synthesis Algorithm on Mobile Devices[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009, 14(2): 370-376. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20090228.
Characteristics of current texture synthesis techniques on PC platform are summarized. Texture synthesis based on Wang tiles is suitable to be implemented on resource-constraint mobile devices. An improved bi-directional texture synthesis algorithm based on Wang tiles is presented through analyzing the stochastic tilling algorithm suggested by Cohen. The proposed algorithm mainly consists of the following steps: selecting sample sub-images
filling the tile with texture and tiling through bi-direction scanning. Accordingly
the search region for the best cut path is enlarged
randomicity of the selected tiles is increased and the requirements of computation and storage are also reduced. Experiments validate the usability of our algorithm on mobile devices. Compared with stochastic tilling
the proposed algorithm illustrates better visual effects in aperiodicity.