an intuitive texture picker
Color and texture are basic elements in digital graphics. Selection of color with a picker is convenient in many of the image editing softwares. However, more organized and intelligent GUI for texture pattern selection is still missing. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap with the introduction of several robust techniques in building an intuitive texture picking GUI. By arranging patterns according to their visual similarities, texture picker with plane and circular layout are presented. Additional functionality include content-based texture searching which can quickly find similar patterns of given sample. Preliminary response to the proposed interface is positive in general, while further improvements are required, for example, on building a hierarchy to facilitate high to low level selection for huge amount of texture patterns.
texture pattern picker texture selection gui multidimensional scaling texture similarity