Harnessing natural textures for multivariate visualization

There remains great untapped potential for the effective use of texture in multivariate visualization despite the excellent progress made. Important steps must be taken towards realizing more of this potential by harnessing the power of rich natural textures. A successful approach will begin from a fundamental understanding of visual texture perception and progress toward an understanding of how to synthesize a multidimensional palette of detailed texture samples whose variations evoke an intrinsic appreciation of the local and global relationships between multiple quantities across a 2D domain.