"Fast Texture Synthesis using Tree-structured Vector Quantization" by Wei and Levoy is a great. https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/texture-synthesis-sig00/t

"Fast Texture Synthesis using Tree-structured Vector Quantization" by Wei and Levoy is a great. https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/texture-synthesis-sig00/texture.pdf https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/texture-synthesis-sig00... Markov generated infinite multi-resolution textures with a 'Neighborhood Causality' feature that looks like it removes some of the uncanny valley in the article link suffers from.