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ang oly tile Kdesign for textile fabrics, texture simulation, and visualiza-tion. For example, in a traditional fabric design process in which physical samples are produced, the effect of the de-sign using yarns with different colors can only be visual-ized through the coloration of yarns, followed by weaving or knitting those yarns into fabrics. This is a very time-consuming process. If more colors are going to be used in the design, more coloration and weaving processes need to be carried out. With the technique of color mapping on texture images, one can visualize the final style of the fab-rics before they are actually produced.1 In textile coloration and color quality control along the supply chain of the col-ored goods, the visualization of solid colors on display de-vices has become a routine process for many companies.2 As the final fabric product is textured, there are demands Heeger and Bergen described a method for synthesizing stochastic texture images that match the texture appearance of a given sample using a set of statistical properties.7 These works emphasized the perceptual similarity of tex-tural effects compared to the original one. Texture informa-tion of the reproduced image, on the other hand, may be different from that of the original one. However, in those works, the color accuracy for the reproduced images was not considered. In the colorimetric characterization of low and high-end digital cameras, Hong, Han, and Lou8 pro-posed an approach for on-screen texture visualization by assuming that the pixels in the reproduced textile fabric image differed only in luminance and not in chromaticity coordinates. To address the problem of color fidelity in the color-mapping process, this study emphasized synthesizing aComputational model textur