Procedural textures usually require spending time testing parameters to realize the diversity of appearances. This paper introduces the idea of a procedural texture preview: A single static image summarizing in a limited pixel space the appearances produced by a given procedure. Unlike grids of thumbnails our previews present a continuous image of appearances, analog to a map. The main challeng...

Young children have been demonstrated to rely on both labeling and appearance information when performing induction. According to some accounts, labels are more conceptually important than appearances. According to others, reliance on labels and appearances stems from a lowlevel attentional mechanism. The latter, but not the former, predicts flexible attentional shifts in reliance on labels or ...