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40+ High-Resolution Packs of Free Textures for Designers — Speckyboy

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40+ High-Resolution Packs of Free Textures for Designers — Speckyboy

The number of options, directions, and aesthetic approaches you can take from simply adding a texture to your work is mind-boggling. Of course, not every design, photo, or video benefits from even the most subtle of textures, but you might be surprised at how a high-resolution texture can bring a design to life.

Knowing when to use a texture and which texture to use comes down to the flow of the design and the priority of information on the page. It is a good idea to keep certain textures in mind while working on a project, but don’t finalize them until you’ve seen the design as a whole.

Texture selection can be an involved and time-consuming process. Firstly, you have to search for that particular texture your design needs, and secondly, you have to test and tweak it to discover the one that actually works.

It is that search process we aim to help you with. We have a huge selection of free high-resolution textures for you today that are just shouting out for use in your next project.

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7 Plastic Textures

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Textures in Your Workflow

Once you’ve found the perfect textures, integrating them is a straightforward process. Most photo and video applications allows you to overlay textures onto your artwork. You can then adjust their opacity and blending modes to achieve the desired effect.

Remember to consider the context of your project when choosing textures. Whether you’re creating a vintage poster, a modern website, or an artistic masterpiece, textures can be your trusty companions on the creative journey.

By understanding the role of textures and experimenting with their application, you can breathe life into your work and engage your audience on a whole new level.

While it is true that you can use very subtle, unobtrusive textures, you should also keep in mind that some textures can draw the eye more than just a solid color. This means that it’s best practice to use textures that create contrast and highlight areas of the page that are important.

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some photos i took this morning again :3 (some photos are edited versions of the "raw" output from the 'pro mode' on my camera app, which explains the graininess if you can see it! I thought they looked better. :D)

taken on a Samsung S9+ (phone)

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50 Free High-Resolution Texture Packs for Designers

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50 Free High-Resolution Texture Packs for Designers

The number of options, directions, and aesthetic approaches you can take from simply adding a texture to your work is mind-boggling. Of course, not every design, photo, or video benefits from even the most subtle of textures, but you might be surprised at how a high-resolution texture can bring a design to life.

Knowing when to use a texture and which texture to use comes down to the flow of the design and the priority of information on the page. It is a good idea to keep certain textures in mind while working on a project, but don’t finalize them until you’ve seen the design as a whole.

Texture selection can be an involved and time-consuming process. Firstly, you have to search for that particular texture your design needs, and secondly, you have to test and tweak it to discover the one that actually works.

It is that search process we aim to help you with. We have a huge selection of free high-resolution textures for you today that are just shouting out for use in your next project.

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What are Textures?

Textures are visual and tactile elements that can add depth and dimension to your design projects, photographs, or videos. They provide a sensory experience akin to touching a textured surface.

They can range from a concrete wall’s rough, gritty feel to a silk fabric’s soft, smooth appearance. Textures add a layer of realism, creating an engaging visual and emotional connection with your audience.

How Can Textures Enhance Your Projects?

Textures can infuse your designs with visual interest and variety, breaking up monotonous or flat surfaces. Whether working on a website, print material, digital art, or video, textures can make your work stand out.

Different textures can evoke specific emotions. For instance, a wooden texture might convey warmth and rustic charm, while a metal texture could evoke a sense of modernity and strength. Understanding these associations allows you to communicate effectively with your audience.

Textures can add depth to your work, making them more realistic and relatable. This can be particularly important for product presentations or architectural renderings.

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How to Incorporate Textures into Your Workflow

Once you’ve found the textures that resonate with your project, integrating them is a straightforward process. Most photo and video software allows you to overlay textures onto your artwork. You can then adjust their opacity and blending modes to achieve the desired effect.

Remember to consider the context of your project when choosing textures. Whether you’re creating a vintage poster, a modern website, or an artistic masterpiece, textures can be your trusty companions on the creative journey.

By understanding the role of textures and experimenting with their application, you can breathe life into your work and engage your audience on a whole new level.

While it is true that you can use very subtle, unobtrusive textures, you should also keep in mind that some textures can draw the eye more than just a solid color. This means that it’s best to use textures that create contrast and highlight areas of the page that are important.

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Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Introduction

The entire discussion on Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles consists of one major point – will the vehicle’s brain (i.e., the computer) be able to make decisions just like a human brain does?

Now whether or not a computer can make these decisions is an altogether different topic, but it is just as important for an automotive company working on self-driving technology to provide the computer with the necessary and sufficient data to make decisions.

This is where sensors, and in particular, their integration with the computing system comes into the picture.

Types of Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles:

There are three main types of Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles used to map the environment around an autonomous vehicle – vision-based (cameras), radio-based (radar), and light/laser-based (LiDAR).

These three types of Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles have been explained below in brief:

Cameras

High-resolution video cameras can be installed in multiple locations around the vehicle’s body to gain a 360° view of the surroundings of the vehicle. They capture images and provide the data required to identify different objects such as traffic lights, pedestrians, and other cars on the road.

Source: How Does a Self-Driving Car See? | NVIDIA Blog

The biggest advantage of using data from high-resolution cameras is that objects can be accurately identified and this is used to map 3D images of the vehicle’s surroundings. However, these cameras don’t perform as accurately in poor weather conditions such as nighttime or heavy rain/fog.

Types of vision-based sensors used:

Monocular vision sensor

Monocular vision Sensors in Autonomous vehicles make use of a single camera to help detect pedestrians and vehicles on the road. This system relies heavily on object classification, meaning it will detect classified objects only. These systems can be trained to detect and classify objects through millions of miles of simulated driving.

When it classifies an object, it compares the size of this object with the objects it has stored in memory. For example, let’s say that the system has classified a certain object as a truck.

If the system knows how big a truck appears in an image at a specific distance, it can compare the size of the new truck and calculate the distance accordingly.

A test scene with detected classified (blue bounding box) and unclassified objects (red bounding box). Source: https://www.foresightauto.com/stereo-vs-mono/

But if the system encounters an object which it is unable to classify, that object will go undetected. This is a major concern for autonomous system developers.

Stereo vision sensor

A stereo vision system consists of a dual-camera setup, which helps in accurately measuring the distance to a detected object even if it doesn’t recognize what the object is.

Since the system has two distinct lenses, it functions as a human eye and helps perceive the depth of a certain object.

Since both lenses capture slightly different images, the system can calculate the distance between the object and the camera based on triangulation.

Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Source: https://sites.tufts.edu/eeseniordesignhandbook/files/2019/05/David_Lackner_Tech_Note_V2.0.pdf

Radar Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Radar Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles make use of radio waves to read the environment and get an accurate reading of an object’s size, angle, and velocity.

A transmitter inside the sensor sends out radio waves and based on the time these waves take to get reflected back to the sensor, the sensor will calculate the size and velocity of the object as well as its distance from the host vehicle.

Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Source: https://riversonicsolutions.com/self-driving-cars-expert-witness-physics-drives-the-technology/

Radar sensors have been used previously in weather forecasting as well as ocean navigation. The reason for this is that it performs quite consistently across a varying set of weather conditions, thus proving to be better than vision-based sensors.

However, they are not always accurate when it comes to identifying a specific object and classifying it (which is an important step in making decisions for a self-driving car).

RADAR sensors can be classified based on their operating distance ranges:

Short Range Radar (SRR): (0.2 to 30m) – The major advantage of short-range radar sensors is to provide high resolution to the images being detected. This is of utmost importance, as a pedestrian standing in front of a larger object may not be properly detected in low resolutions.

Medium Range Radar (MRR): 30 to 80m

Long-Range Radar (LRR): (80m to more than 200m) – These sensors are most useful for Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and highway Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems.

LiDAR sensors

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) offers some positives over vision-based and radar sensors. It transmits thousands of high-speed laser light waves, which when reflected, give a much more accurate sense of a vehicle’s size, distance from the host vehicle, and its other features.

Many pulses create distinct point clouds (a set of points in 3D space), which means a LiDAR sensor will give a three-dimensional view of a certain object as well.

Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Source: How LiDAR Fits Into the Future of Autonomous Driving

LiDAR sensors often detect small objects with high precision, thus improving the accuracy of object identification. Moreover, LiDAR sensors can be configured to give a 360° view of the objects around the vehicle as well, thus reducing the requirement for multiple sensors of the same type.

The drawback, however, is that LiDAR sensors have a complex design and architecture, which means that integrating a LiDAR sensor into a vehicle can increase manufacturing costs multifold.

Moreover, these sensors need high computing power, which makes them difficult to be integrated into a compact design.

Most LiDAR sensors use a 905 nm wavelength, which can provide accurate data up to 200 m in a restricted field of view. Some companies are also working on 1550 nm LiDAR sensors, which will have even better accuracy over a longer range.

Ultrasonic Sensors

Ultrasonic Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles are mostly used in low-speed applications in automobiles.

Most parking assist systems have ultrasonic sensors, as they provide an accurate reading of the distance between an obstacle and the car, irrespective of the size and shape of the obstacle.

The ultrasonic sensor consists of a transmitter-receiver setup. The transmitter sends ultrasonic sound waves and based on the time period between transmission of the wave and its reception, the distance to the obstacle is calculated.

Sensors in Autonomous Vehicles

Source: Ultrasonic Sensor working applications and advantages

The detection range of ultrasonic sensors ranges from a few centimetres to 5m, with an exact measurement of distance.

They can also detect objects at a very small distance from the vehicle, which can be extremely helpful while parking your vehicle.

Ultrasonic sensors can also be used to detect conditions around the vehicle and help with V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) and V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure) connectivity.

Sensor data from thousands of such connected vehicles can help in building algorithms for autonomous vehicles and offers reference data for several scenarios, conditions and locations.

Challenges in handling sensors

The main challenge in handling sensors is to get an accurate reading from the sensor while filtering out the noise. Noise means the additional vibrations or abnormalities in a signal, which may reduce the accuracy and precision of the signal.

It is important to tell the system which part of the signal is important and which needs to be ignored. Noise filtering is a set of processes that are performed to remove the noise contained within the data.

Noise Filtering

The main cause for uncertainty being generated through the use of individual sensors is the unwanted noise or interference in the environment.

Of course, any data picked up by any sensor in the world consists of the signal part (which we need) and the noise part (which we want to ignore). But the uncertainty lies in not understanding the degree of noise present in any data.

Normally, high-frequency noise can cause a lot of distortions in the measurements of the sensors. Since we want the signal to be as precise as possible, it is important to remove such high-frequency noise.

Noise filters are divided into linear (e.g., simple moving average) and non-linear (e.g., median) filters. The most commonly used noise filters are:

Low-pass filter – It passes signals with a frequency lower than a certain cut-off frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cut-off frequency.

High-pass filter – It passes signals with a frequency higher than a certain cut-off frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies lower than the cut-off frequency.

Other common filters include Kalman filter, Recursive Least Square (RLS), Least Mean Square Error (LMS).

Autonomous Vehicle Feature Development at Dorle Controls

At Dorle Controls, we strive to provide bespoke software development and integration solutions for autonomous vehicles as well.

This includes individual need-based application software development as well as developing the entire software stack for an autonomous vehicle. Write to info@dorleco.com to know more about our capabilities in this domain.

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