Feature-Based Texture Synthesis and Editing Using Voronoi Diagrams

In this paper, we present a technique to synthesize featured textures easily and interactively.The main idea is to synthesize a new texture by copying irregular patches from the source to the target texture, each of which contains a complete feature.The interior part of the feature is not touched while the cutting and stitching is performed on the background texture between the features.The technique starts by selecting a feature in the source texture by the user, after which the algorithm finds the positions of other features, generates a similar distribution of features, and finally synthesizes the target texture by copying and stitching patches of the target´s Voronoi cellular shapes from the source texture. The technique is fast enough to be used interactively to edit textures in a simple and easy way.