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Texture Anarchy is a set of three filters for Adobe Photoshop that revolve around producing and manipulating complex textures. The Texture Anarchy Explorer is about finding and editing procedural textures. With it, you can mutate and explore the procedural space of the filter until you find something you like, then dig deeper and get down to editing the nuts and bolts that make it do what it does. There's a gradient editor for tweaking colours, a lighting editor for adjusting surface lighting, and a mutation system for making large or small tweaks to the texture you've created. The Tiled Explorer gives you the same tools but generates textures of any size that tile seamlessly, limiting only some of the rotation and scale tools due to the nature of tiling textures. Edge Anarchy uses a texture to cut in to the edge of an image or object, applying a bump map and lighting the surface if you wish to produce a variety of shapes using textures you have created in the Explorer. Each filter provides a large number of noise types, blend modes, and controls for tweaking results. There is also a common Preset system that allows you to share textures between the filters and store as many categories as you like, each holding as many presets as you like.
Texture Anarchy was written by Ambient Design for Digital Anarchy, and can be purchased from their website. It works with Adobe Photoshop under Windows, Mac OS 9, and Mac OS X.
We've got a more in depth look at the product, and tutorials in development, but for the moment here is a set of samples that were produced with the filters, and you can find more information at www.digitalanarchy.com.
Download the Texture Anarchy Screensaver for Windows: Fills your screen with mutating procedural textures generated by the Texture Anarchy engine. Once you've downloaded it, just unzip it, right click the .scr file and choose "install".
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