Tileable / Repeatable Patterns

I spent the weekend implementing an algorithm to make tileable textures out of any image.

Here is an example:

Mud

The Paul Bourke Texture Site has a lot of nice textures, but they are not all tileable. Now with NprTools, you can make them tileable with a simple button push in SketchUp (GIMP and PhotoShop users can make textures tileable, but it is a lot more work.)

Original image - not tileable - since the left and right edges do not match.

Tileable image. It is not exactly the same, but at least it is tileable.

Tileable version placed in SketchUp

For more information, see Tileable Textures