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Define                    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.
|
| Please note that those directories marked with a "*" are not present in
| this distribution for reasons of space.
|
Define Contents  : Description
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Define 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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Define Colours*  | These textures were intended to illustrate a range of
|                  palettes.  Most of them were bred from the same original
|                  texture.
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Define Demo*     | These are the source textures for the JPEGged sample
|                  textures on my web site.  They are often very similar to
|                  other textures available here.  Apologies for the
|                  DREADFUL.DOS filenames.
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Define Dust*     | These are named after a technique employed in their
|                  generation.  They often look as though they are covered in
|                  small spots or streaks.
|
Define Features  | Here are some textures designed to illustrate some of
|                  the more recent developments in the Texture Garden.
|                  The textures include examples of bumpmapping, and
|                  Multi-layer textures.  Those who are upgrading from
|                  early versions are recommended to start from here.
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Define FFT_1D    | Again, named after techniques employed in their generation,
Define  and      | these demonstrate the main techniques used in texture
Define FFT_2D    | generation by the program.  Beginners should 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 yet.
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Define Filtering*| These are some textures that use filtering techniques.
|                  Many of these textures were degigned to simulate the effect
|                  of lightsourcing.  Now that Texture Garden supports
|                  a wide variety of bumpmapping and raytracing techniques,
|                  many of these textures are largely of historical interest.
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Define Flowers   | A technique quite different to those used in most of the
|                  other textures currently available with Texture Garden.
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Define Invariant*| These textures do not scale when displayed on different
|                  scales.  This can make them useful as backgrounds.
|
Define Layers*   | Textures designed to illustrate the virtual sprite
|                  technique that Texture Garden uses to make textures
|                  with more than one layer of texture.
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Define Mandala   | Textures often employing mirrors or rotation to produce
|                  symmetrical effects.
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Define Misc      | These textures did not fit into the other categories.
|                  They are often less aesthetically pleasing.
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Define Old*      | These textures were created during Texture Garden's
|                  development.  Though orininally not considered suitable
|                  for general release, those wishing to increase their range
|                  of textures may find these files to be of interest.
|                  No claims are made here about their quality.
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Define 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.
|
|  Tim Tyler 1996.
| _____  __  __  _____             The Mandala Centre,
||_   _||  \/  ||_   _| 11 Alexandra Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2DD.
|  | |  | |\/| |  | |     tim@varuna.demon.co.uk / tt@cryogen.com
|  |_|  |_|  |_|  |_|       http://www.varuna.demon.co.uk/tmc/
|
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