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by nadam 5549 days ago
Yes it is a known technique also in 3D games. Related, but more complicated (research) topic is infinite/arbitrarily-sized non-looping texture generation from arbitrary sample images.

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vordonezroma/texturesynth.pdf

(There are some mind blowing generated images in the linked PDF.)