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NPAR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Viewing progress in non-photorealistic rendering through Heinlein's lens
The field of non-photorealistic rendering is reaching a mature state. In its infancy, researchers explored the mimicry of methods and tools used by traditional artists to generate...
Amy Ashurst Gooch, Jeremy Long, Li Ji, Anthony Est...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Sisley the abstract painter
We present an interactive abstract painting system named Sisley. Sisley works upon the psychological principle [Berlyne 1971] that abstract arts are often characterized by their gr...
Mingtian Zhao, Song Chun Zhu
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Stylized depiction of images based on depth perception
Recent works in image editing are opening up new possibilities to manipulate and enhance input images. Within this context, we leverage well-known characteristics of human percept...
Jorge Lopez-Moreno, Jorge Jimenez, Sunil Hadap, Er...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Compact explosion diagrams
This paper presents a system to automatically generate compact explosion diagrams. Inspired by handmade illustrations, our approach reduces the complexity of an explosion diagram ...
Markus Tatzgern, Denis Kalkofen, Dieter Schmalstie...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Detail-preserving paint modeling for 3D brushes
Recent years have witnessed significant advances in 3D brush modeling and simulation in digital paint tools. Compared with traditional 2D brushes, a 3D brush can be both more intu...
Nelson Siu-Hang Chu, William Baxter, Li-Yi Wei, Na...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Self-similar texture for coherent line stylization
Stylized line rendering for animation has traditionally traded-off between two undesirable artifacts: stroke texture sliding and stroke texture stretching. This paper proposes a n...
Pierre Bénard, Forrester Cole, Aleksey Golo...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Diffusion constraints for vector graphics
The formulation of Diffusion Curves [Orzan et al. 2008] allows for the flexible creation of vector graphics images from a set of curves and colors: a diffusion process fills out...
Hedlena Bezerra, Elmar Eisemann, Doug DeCarlo, Jo&...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Visual explanations
Douglas DeCarlo, Matthew Stone
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Progressive histogram reshaping for creative color transfer and tone reproduction
Image manipulation takes many forms. A powerful approach involves image adjustment by example. To make color edits more intuitive, the intelligent transfer of a user-specified ta...
Tania Pouli, Erik Reinhard
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Non-Photorealistic Rendering and the science of art
I argue that Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) research will play a key role in the scientific understanding of visual art and illustration. NPR can contribute to scientific un...
Aaron Hertzmann