Efficient editing of aged object textures

Real objects present an enormous amount of detail, including aging effects. Artists need an intuitive control when they iteratively review and redesign their work to achieve a specific aging effect pattern but physically based and empirical simulations rarely provide an appropriate control. Our motivation comes from simplifying the redesign step by providing appropriate tools. In our system the user interactively identifies aging effects in a source image or photograph. The user then designs a target aging mask presenting the wanted aging effects pattern. Our system then synthesizes the output texture within a few seconds using a texture synthesis approach adapted to aged object texture editing. Thus, the user can quickly redesign the aging mask to achieve better results or test new configurations.