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Technologies
to tackle this problem have been
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around
for some time and at least one, from
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Virage,
was available on AltaVista in 1996.�
It
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allowed
the user to vary and try to match:
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Color �
general color impression
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Composition � spatial arrangement of color
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Texture � �patterns,� e.g., wood, granite, clouds
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Structure � shape of objects in the image
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