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Image Quilting can be used to synthesize a large texture from a tiny texture; it was coined in Efros 2001, which introduced the idea of a cutting a minimum cost path through a tile to make the seams less discernable. ("Image Transfer" is also discussed in this paper, which is less interesting to me.)

Wang Tiles were popularized in Cohen 2003. These make it possible to apply image quilting over an infinite region, by baking out a small set of orientable tiles. (They can also be used for generating maze-like structures, which is somewhat orthogonal to the image quilting stuff.)

Wang Tiles can also be used to generate aperioidic tilings of blue noise (or point samples), and they can even be applied in a recursive manner, which allows for infinite zoom; see Kopf 2006, as well as [this excelle

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import sys

	try:
	import gtk
	except:
	print >> sys.stderr, "You need to install the python gtk bindings"
	sys.exit(1)

	from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
	from functools import partial
	Circle = partial(etree.Element, 'svg:circle')
	c = Circle(cx='100', cy='200', fill='red')
	etree.tostring(c)
	# <svg:circle cx="100" cy="200" fill="red" />

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import itertools as it

	class pi_computing_device(object):
	def __init__(self, iterations):
	self.n = iterations

	def compute_pi(self):
	coefficients = it.cycle((1, -1))

	#!/usr/bin/python

	from ctypes import *
	import time, random
	import os

	CURRENTWINDOW = 0

	# nm -D /usr/lib64/libxdo.so.2 \| grep mouselocation
	# http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html#passing-pointers-or-passing-parameters-by-reference

	# prman -statsfile FOO.xml BAR.rib
	from lxml import etree
	root = etree.parse('stats.xml').getroot()
	print root.xpath("//set[@name='fileLog']/member/text()")

	python -c "import json,sys; print json.load(sys.stdin)" < input.txt

	cat unformatted.json \| python -m json.tool > formatted.json

	(defun steal-server()
	(interactive)
	(shell-command "emacsclient -e '(set-frame-name \"STOLEN\")'")
	(server-force-delete)
	(server-start)
	(set-frame-name "SERVER")
	)

	template <typename F>
	struct ScopeExit {
	ScopeExit(F f) : f(f) {}
	~ScopeExit() { f(); }
	F f;
	};

	template <typename F>
	ScopeExit<F> MakeScopeExit(F f) {
	return ScopeExit<F>(f);