Patent ID: 8082128

Claim:
A building material design support system for supporting design of a surface pattern of a building material including island-shaped convex portions and concave portions connecting the adjacent convex portions, the convex portions including first convex portions to be arranged next to corresponding first convex portions of the adjacent building material and second convex portions larger than the first convex portions and each surrounded by the concave portions, the building material design support system comprising: a computer with a recording medium for data files, the computer being able to function as the building material design support system; a surface design pattern data file configured to store surface design pattern data on arrangements of the convex portions and the concave portions; a texture pattern data file configured to store texture pattern groups including plural texture patterns of the same system, the texture pattern representing the feel of a material of the convex portion; surface design pattern selection means for selectively reading out one of the surface design pattern data stored in the surface design pattern data file; texture pattern group selection means for selectively reading out one of the texture pattern groups stored in the texture pattern data file; image composition means for allotting a prescribed texture pattern common to all of building materials among a texture pattern group selectively read out with the texture pattern group selection means to the first convex portions of the surface design pattern selectively read out with the surface design pattern selection means and for randomly allotting texture patterns from the texture pattern group to the second convex portions adjacent to the first convex portions; and display means for displaying a surface design to which the texture patterns are allotted to the surface design pattern by the image composition means.