This project is an implementation of a graph cut technique to generate a seamless texture from a small sample image (the patch), introduced in the following article:
@article{kwatra:2003:SIGGRAPH, author = {Vivek Kwatra and Arno Schödl and Irfan Essa and Greg Turk and Aaron Bobick}, title = {Graphcut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2003}, year = {2003}, month = {July}, volume = {22}, number = {3}, pages = {277-286} }
The article and many examples can be found at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/graphcuttextures/.