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What Makes VersaTiles Special?
We tried to make VersaTiles outstanding in every possible way.
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High Quality
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The VersaTiles image database currently contains
about 145.000 high-quality pictures, and the number is increasing
daily. Such a large amount of pictures is necessary to guarantee
the outstanding quality of a resulting VersaTile. Using too few
pictures might give only low-contrast results.
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Large Size
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High-quality pictures are also essential for professional
large-size production. VersaTiles has no limits in database size
nor picture size, thus making it possible to produce VersaTiles
of almost any size, without compromising image quality.
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Techniques
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For special cases, VersaTiles has the option of
using specific techniques, like blending or contour enhancement,
to improve the overall image quality of a resulting VersaTile.
This may be useful for creating VersaTiles with customer supplied
image databases with only a few hundred pictures, or for very
low-contrast images.
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Which Techniques are Available?
There are several techniques to improve the overall appearance
of a VersaTile. Depending on image quality or special needs those
techniques are applied to get excellent results.
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Standard
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A VersaTile is built by tiling a source image and substituting each
tile by a picture from the image library (e.g. Explorer
23). |
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Random Tile Positioning
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Instead of applying a grid to the source image (which gives a rectangular
raster), tiles of different sizes are positioned randomly (e.g. Uluru). |
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Blending
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The source and tiled image are combined by assigning a certain level
of transparency to the tiled image. It can either be 'flat blending'
throughout the whole picture, gradient blending (e.g. Earth),
but also shaped (e.g. Strauss). |
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Contour Enhancement
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This special technique enhances the contours of the resulting image.
This is especially useful for low-contrast source images or if the
source image contains many essential contours (e.g. Santa
Claus). |
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