Texture Resources

Links to sites containing textures.

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• Pattern/Texture/Tile Generators -
  • Harm'sTile99 - (Win)
  • Infinity Textures (Win)
  • Infinity Texture Explorer (Win)
  • Teralogic Texture Maker (Win)
  • Java Kali (Mac/Win/Unix)
  • XFader - Pegtop (Win)
  • Penrose Tiler - (Win)
  • Rendersoft Illusionae - (Win)
  • Symmetry - shareware ($5)
  • SynTex - Synthetic Realms (Win)
    • Shareware & full version
  • Taprats - Islamic Star Patterns - Java applet
• Wood Veneers -
  • Great for woodworkers & artists!
  • For more resources, do a search for 'veneer' at any search engine
  • B&B Rare Woods
  • D. Brooker & Associates
  • D.F. Richards (Veneers) Ltd.
  • Kelachandra Veneers
  • Milestone Veneer
  • Veneernet.com 
  • Wood Mosaic Corp. 
• The 3DS Max Experiment - textures, material libraries 
• 3D Point 
• bRAVADo's Bryce/3D site 
• Brodatz Textures 
• Corian Gallery 
• Columbia-Utrecht Reflectance and Texture Database 
• DIP Pixelware - Texture a Day 
• Fabrice Neyret's Texture Bookmarks 
• Igneous Textures 
• Lannie's Texture Links 
• Lannie's 3D Model World 
• tBase - Blender textures 
• Marlin Studios 
• MaxMatter 
• MIT Vision Texture Database 
• The Texture Forest 
• PWP Texture Backgrounds 
• Spectrum Glass
• Gryphon Designs Ltd. 
• TOPics - Computer Generated Graphics 
• TurboSquid 
• Totally Free - 
  • Escati Free Textures 
  • Junebug's Texture Madness 
  • Laffey Computer Imaging 
  • Pla-Net, Inc. 
  • Francesco Franceschi 
  • FreeTextures 
  • Renfield Imaging 
  • Texture Cube from FantasticArts 
  • The Texture Library 
• Royalty Free - 
  • Amazing 3D Graphics 
  • Blender Textures 
  • Cosmo-graph 
  • Dreams and Magic Animation Studio Textures 
  • FreeTextures.com 
  • Graphtallica 
  • Totally Seamless - 2 free textures per day, archive of previous free textures (jpeg format) 
  • Lightsource - Lightwave resource site - free for personal use, artist credit for commercial use 
  • Texture Source - requires artist credit - absolutely no commercial use 
  • The Planetary Maps Hub  
    • "The maps presented here are designed for spherical projection using POVray, but they should work with other raytracers too with no problems" 
    • Plus links to other map sites 
  • Mastering 3D Graphics 
  • Texture Station 
  • AXEM Textures 
• Personal Use Only - 
  • 3-D Design
  • Absolute Background Texture Archive
  • Bourke's Textures
  • Ender's Realm
  • Erd Ogivae
  • Francesco Franceschi
  • Infinite Fish
  • 3D Cafe
  • Paul Bourke's Textures
  • Texture Land Mirror Site
    • fee for commercial use
  • Visionized
• Commercial -
  • Booga Holler Full Metal Texture Kits - Royalty free 
    • Free texture map of the week 
  • Eni Oken's Texture Kit Classic Ornament CD - Learn how to create great texture art with this tutorial/library CD 
    • Free textures for Registered Users (password protected) 
    • Free textures for Non-registered Users 
  • IFW Textures - Lightwave/Inspire Shaders 
    • $75 gives access to download site for 6 months 
  • Paladin Studios - Real World Textures
  • RealWorld Imagery
    • Texture maps, tileable textures
    • Some free samples
  • Texturestock.com or Thinkstock.com
    • Royalty-free
    • $125 US per image
  • Textures to the Max - 3D Studio Max
  • TurboSquid
• Publications - 
  • Fundamentals of Texture Mapping and Image Warping 
    • Thesis by Paul S. Heckbert 
  • Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling 
    • by Alexei A. Efros and Thomas K. Leung 
  • Pyramid Based Texture Analysis/Synthesis 
    • by D.J. Heeger and J. R. Bergen 
  • Representation and Synthesis of Visual Texture 
    • by Javier Portilla and Eero Simoncelli 
    • Has links to other interesting papers 
  • Find more by doing a search on textures at university pages 
    • Berkeley 

I have not checked these out yet 

Realistic Textures Oriented Sites  
NetNet Truespace Textures
ParaGraph Free Textures
POV-Ray Textures Library
Tomahawk Textures
WUarchive Textures

Realistic, Seamless Textures Sites

Adding Spice: Background Textures
Artbeats: Textures
Background Textures
byu.edu Textures
Erd Ogivae Graphics
Garcia: Textures
Iain's Textures
Ozone Textures
Pattern Land
Realm Graphics: Backgrounds
Robhood Textures
Rooftop Textures
Texture Land
Texture Station
Texture Vault
Virtus: Textures
Xensei: Textures

Seamless Textures Oriented Sites

Background Generator
Bumpy: Textures
Custom Textures
Dr Zeus' Textures
Er4www Textures
fly-by-net BACKGROUNDS
Heather Champ
Hype Backgrounds
Iain's Textures
Julianne's Background Textures
Marlin Studios
Netscape Background Textures
Texture Woild
 

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