| Analytic (2D) | Spectral analysis | Ghazanfarpour and Dischler (1995) |
| | Image pyramid transform | Heeger and Bergen (1995) |
| | Reaction diffusion | Turk (1991) |
| | Stereological methods | Jagnow et al. (2004), Chiou and Yang (2006),Du et al. (2013) and Shu et al. (2014) |
| | Gray-level aura matrices | Qin and Yang (2007) and Wei and Levoy (2001) |
| | Energy function | Kopf et al. (2007) and Chen and Wang (2010) |
| | Lazy synthesis | Dong et al. (2008) |
| | Morphing and warping | Pietroni et al. (2007) |
| | Lapped solid textures | Takayama et al. (2008) |
| | Texture evolution | Chen and Ip (2004) |
| | Sketch-based texturing | Zhang et al. (2011) |
| Geometric (3D) | Hypertexture | Perlin (1989) and Gilet and Dischler (2009) |
| | Texel mapping | Kajiya and Kay (1989) |
| | Cellular growth | Fleischer et al. (1995) |
| | Macrostructures | Dischler and Ghazanfarpour (1999) |
| | Image analogies | Bhat et al. (2004) |
| | Mesh quilting | Zhou et al. (2006) |
| | Height-and-tilt textures | Andersen et al. (2009) |