Creating audio textures by example: tiling and stitching

When creating multimedia constructions such as Web pages, games, and animations, it is common to play some sorts of sound as a ´loop´, where the sound file is played repeatedly from beginning to end. This is an easy way to extend a short audio sample, but the repetition is easily detected by a human listener. It is possible to create new sounds from examples, so that looping is not needed.