============================================= Paperbot - unique textures for background use ============================================= *Tuukka Hastrup and Asko Soukka* Based on work for `recognizably unique textures`__ by Janne V. Kujala and Tuomas Lukka we present a WWW service to bring those textures in public. At first Paperbot_ generates a unique id from any string (from a person name, for example) calculating a sha-1 sum for it. That sum is passed to the texture generator and a repeatible texture for background use is generated. This is definitely a new innotive way to use 3D acceleration cards! You are welcome to test Paperbot at: http://himalia.it.jyu.fi/paperbot/. .. _textures: paper.html .. _Paperbot: http://himalia.it.jyu.fi/paperbot/ __ textures_ .. figure:: images/paper/examples.png :width: 640 Figure 1. Texture examples.