Automatic pattern recognition using computers has manu potential applications. In many cases successful automatic pattern recognition procedures require an analysis of texture of a picture by a conventional digital computer: but this involves a type af computing that is at the present time extremely time-consuming and thus very expensive. In response to this situation, TEXAC was designed and built which is capable of most whole picture operations at a rapid television rate of 1/30th of a second. The results of operations are displayed continuously on color and black-and-white television monitors. The paper presents the architecture of the TEXAC, the picture processing language developed and some of the results of TEXAC whole picture operations.