If a terrain texture pattern has too much contrast, then targets are too difficult to detect. Matching real world colors and contrasts helps ensure fair and accurate simulations in standalone or networked environments. In addition, having a consistent library ensures that a simulation will be free of artifacts due to inconsistant source colors. Of course, the graphics engine and display must preserve the color fidelity represented in the patterns. It is easy to increase the brightness and contrast of our texture patterns using Photoshop or other standard imaging applications.
Patterns shipped with bright, saturated colors afford the customer less detail to work with.
Once colors become saturated, the image loses detail which can never be recovered. Rather than make assumptions about how the customer will want to increase the brightness and intensity of the images, we provide a consistent set of patterns with no saturated colors, and let the customer make the adjustments desired. In this way, the customer has greater control over the color range. Searching and retrieval can be done in two ways. Interactive searching is done with a browsing program that includes keyword searching.