House Digest

12 Backsplash Ideas From Erin Napier For An HGTV-Inspired Kitchen

Erin Napier and her husband Ben Napier, hosts of HGTV's "Home Town," are experts when it comes to a wide variety of possible ...
House Digest

12 Tile Installation Patterns To Try For A Bold Kitchen Backsplash That's Unique To You

The kitchen backsplash is the perfect place to explore interesting tile patterns, from bold geometric to petite penny round ...
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 ...
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 ...

From “slapped on” to “grown in”: Hitem3D 2.0 bets integrated texture generation can make AI 3D assets actually printable

Hitem3D 2.0 adds a portrait mode described as “ strand-level fidelity ,” aiming to reconstruct head shape and facial ...
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 ...