Smithsonian Magazine

Inspired by Octopus Skin, This Synthetic Material Can Change Color and Texture on Demand

The animals' camouflaging capabilities have long inspired humans. The new material could one day help researchers improve ...

Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
PRIMETIMER

Home Reimagined's Vern Yip breaks down color, pattern, and texture on Live with Kelly and Mark

Vern Yip of Home Reimagined demonstrates how to use color, pattern, and texture step by step during a design segment on Live with Kelly and Mark ...
Nature

Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...

From 'Slapped On' to 'Grown In': Hitem3D 2.0 Bets Integrated Texture Generation Can Make AI 3D Assets Actually Printable

dragon-shaped asset where scales, horns, and whiskers follow the underlying geometry rather than appearing as a flat overlay.
C&EN

Polymer film changes texture and color on demand

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...
IEEE

Texture Dataset Generator With Repeatable Patterns From a Single Sample Applied to Historical Tiles From Belém, Pará, Brazil

Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) algorithms require large datasets, often costly to create. This work proposes a generator model that builds synthetic texture datasets by synthesizing repeatable ...
IEEE

Robust local ternary patterns for texture categorization

Abstract: This paper proposes a new image representation for texture categorization, which is based on extension of local binary patterns (LBP). As we know LBP can achieve effective description ...