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- Features
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- A list of the features of this program.
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- Texture Garden generates algorithmic textures using a range of techniques
- including inverse two dimensional fast-fourier-transforms of filtered noise.
- Genetic methods are used to seed the textures enabling breeding, selective
- mutation, cultural transmission of colour and sexual recombination to be
- implemented.
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- The program supports seamless tessellation, twenty-four bit colour and full
- control over texture animation.
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- Built in texture generation language supporting:
- Conditional execution;
- Subroutines;
- For ... Next loops;
- Repeat ... Until structures;
- System and user variables.
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- The syntax of the language is fully documented, enabling users to create new
- species of textures.
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- The language is extensible, supporting third party extensions.
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- Full documentation and support for writing extension modules is provided.
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- Textures can be sculpted from three-dimensional solid blocks of texture.
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- Textures may be animated in a wide variety of ways, and support for
- batchfiles is provided for ultimate flexibility in texture animation.
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- Extensive anti-aliasing may be used in all distortions employed.
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- The program contains an interface to !ChangeFSI, providing:
- JPEG export (useful for HTML backgrounds).
- Resizing;
- Mode and eigen-factor adjustment;
- Various image processing options:
- gamma correction;
- brightening;
- sharpening;
- smoothing;
- and, of course, Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
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- Textures may be animated in a wide variety of ways.
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- Textures may be simply resized by dragging their lower right-hand corners.
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- New palettes may be selected from a wide variety, or be taken from other
- textures.
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- Support for batchfiles is provided for ultimate flexibility in texture
- animation.
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- Computer Concepts' Colour Card is supported.
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- For those with old machines and no Colour Card there is a screen blanking
- option.
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- Interactive help is available on all icons and menu entries.
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