ABSTRACT
Surface complexity is fundamental to several properties and physical phenomena of the textile pattern. It consists of color and composition. The design of quilt patterns also includes the color and composition. Using the image process technique, it is possible to determine the surface complexity of texture image. Quilt pattern is a texture image, so its recognition mainly to extract image characteristics as a basis to identify. However, it is difficult to quantify the surface morphology since it is difficult to describe the surface mathematically. The mathematical description of a surface should accurately reflect its features, and should be compatible with the various theoretical models which are related to surface structures. A fractal is an irregular geometric object with an infinite nesting of structure at all scales. The diversified complexity of fractal may be
1 INTRODUCTION
Quilting is the process with the material of a different color mosaic pieces into various patterns. Quilt art is an art form in which amateur crafts people explore geometry and color to create stunning designs. About the origin of the quilt is unclear. Due to the lack of written reference in the history, the explanation of the origin of quilts art remains inconclusive. The more commonly accepted explanation is that quilts art design originated from ancient Indian handcraft art and applied mostly on the making of clothing and scarf. Some researchers believe that the quilt art originated in the 13-14 century Europe, and with European settlers in America and spread to the Americas. The cloth stitching system becomes the cloth, and sewn into the quilt. In China, quilt art is extremely long history and as a traditional embroidery techniques exist, called “collage embroidery”. The history of quilt can be traced to the damask heap and paste silk in Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, quilt art becomes appliqué process. To the Ming and Qing dynasties quilt Art is more prevalent in Beijing, China (Chubb 1991; Herr & Holstein 1996; Adamson 2009; Taras 2012).
