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Texture Land (Internet Software)
This an extremely popular and much-mirrored site, housing, as it does, a collection of 298 textured backgrounds for use in your Web pages, 3D modelling or VRML. Three separate sections concentrate on normal textures (simple bubbly-surfaced abstracts), abnormal textures (warped spacey landscapes) and odds 'n ends (close-ups from a class biology lesson). Personal users get to download them for free but commercial sites should pay a modest fee. Lastly, to see that it's legible and to check the overall effect ,you can also link to a whizzy little Windows utility called the Color Manipulation Device. Just like that!