What are the tools supporting realistic pattern generation?
There are four main tools: Dehaze, Color Correction, AutoTile and Perspective. The De-Haze tool removes atmospheric haze effects from color photographs. This is mainly used with aerial photography and satellite imagery to recover the underlying colors and contrasts of the surfaces. Texture patterns for simulation should not have haze effects in the patterns because the simulator will add the haze effects separately. The Color Correction tool is used to change colors in an image to match real-world colors. The tool includes a large library of colors determined by accurately measuring real-world objects. Classes of colors in an image are re-mapped to the real-world colors selected by the user. The AutoTile tool starts with a large non-repeating image and derives a smaller texture pattern from the image. The smaller texture pattern tiles seamlessly. The process is remarkably reliable, but there are controls to adapt the tiling algorithm for special situations.
