A Methodology for Description of Texturing Methods

The wealth of details in real scenes is far beyond the capabilities of explicit optical and geometrical modeling. In order to simulate the complex color or shape variations of such scenes, so-called texturing methods are often used. Unfortunately, they have some important drawbacks : speciicity to a particular phenomenon, mutual incompatibility, and worse, lack of extensibility and portability. To remove these restrictions, we propose a new methodology for the description of texturing methods, based on the notion of enrichment. The driving idea of the methodology is to enhance a basic description of the scene by using three families of normalized operators (transformations, perturbations and modulations) that can be innnitely combined.