  The paper presents a concept/technique to compress and synthesize complex
material morphologies that is based on Wang tilings. Specifically, a
microstructure is stored in a set of Wang tiles and its reconstruction is
performed by means of a stochastic tiling algorithm. A substantial part of the
study is devoted to the setup of optimal parameters of the automatic tile
design by means of parametric studies with statistical descriptors at heart.
The performance of the method is demonstrated on four two-dimensional two-phase
target systems, monodisperse media with hard and soft discs, sandstone, and
high porosity metallic foam.
