Embark developed and open-sourced a texture synthesis tool in Rust that generates new textures from example images using a multiresolution stochastic algorithm, enabling artists to create variations from a single source texture.

The texture-synthesis repository (~1,700 GitHub stars, now archived) implements a non-neural algorithmic approach where "every pixel asks 'if these are my neighbors, what is my color?'" based on example images. Tech artist Anastasia Opara and programmer Tomasz Stachowiak built it, generating approximately 3,000 images from ~150 style examples with 6 guide maps. Each image took ~20 seconds to generate. The tool supports guide maps, coordinate transforms, and multi-threading. While now archived, it demonstrates Embark's early investment in AI-adjacent creative tools and was used in their internal content pipeline.