Features

• Built in texture generation language supporting:
  • Conditional execution;
  • Subroutines;
  • For ... Next loops;
  • Repeat ... Until structures;
  • Branching and named subroutines;
  • System and user variables.
• Built in mutating and breeding facilities, enabling the computer to generate textures.
• Texture Garden has a bytecode format designed for bandwidth-critical applications.
• The syntax of the language is fully documented, enabling users to create new species of textures.
• The language is extensibe, supporting third party extensions.
• Full documentation and support for writing extension modules is provided.
• Interfaces to !InterGif (for exporting GIFs and animated GIFs) and !ChangeFSI are provided.

  Many of the features of !ChangeFSI are now present natively within Texture Garden. For resizing and Floyd-Steinberg dithering it is easier to use the built in commands, than it is to use !ChangeFSI. A number of its options may still prove to be of use:

  • Mode and eigen-factor adjustment;
  • Various image processing options:
    • Gamma correction;
    • Brightening;
    • Sharpening;
    • Smoothing.
  • JPEG export (useful for web page backgrounds).
• Extensive anti-aliasing may be used in all distortions employed.
• Colour paradigms supported include:
  • RGB;
  • HSV;
  • CIE.
• New palettes may be generated by:
  • selecting from a wide variety supplied with the program;
  • importing them from other textures;
  • or mutation from existing palettes.
• Textures may be animated in a wide variety of ways.
• Support for batch processing is provided for ultimate flexibility in texture animation.
• Textures can be sculpted from three-dimensional solid blocks of texture.
• Computer Concepts' Colour Card is supported.
• For those with old machines and no Colour Card there is a screen blanking option.
• Texture Garden has its own Zap syntax-colouring mode for those wanting to edit their texture generation files directly. This also provides support for Studio24 Pro's and PhotoDesk2's textures. A mode for viewing the files in !StrongEd is also provided.
• Interactive help is available on all icons and menu entries.

Applications

• Texture Garden should prove useful to those who:
  • Are involved in designing World Wide Web pages;
  • Need textures for desk top publishing purposes.
  • Work with 3D computer graphics;
  • Are interested in generating Single Image Random Dot Stereograms;
  • Design computer games;
  • Have an interest in computer animation;
  • Just want to spruce up their desktop's backdrop and window backgrounds.