Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes for Interactive Traditional Drawing

Durand, Frédo; Ostromoukhov, Victor; Miller, Mathieu; Duranleau, Francois; Dorsey, Julie

Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes for Interactive Traditional Drawing

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Date

2001

Authors

Durand, Frédo
Ostromoukhov, Victor
Miller, Mathieu
Duranleau, Francois
Dorsey, Julie

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present an interactive system, which allows the user to produce drawings in a variety of traditional styles. It takes as input an image and performs semi-automatic tonal modeling. Our system shifts tedious technical aspects to the computer side, while providing the user with freedom on the creative and aesthetic side. The user has low-level control over stroke placement, and high-level control over the tone, smudging and amount of detail. The drawing is rendered in real-time. The basic component is a thresholding model of strokes that can simulate a large class of styles (e.g. pencil, charcoal, engraving). It provides a controllable simulation of the variation of pencil pressure or stroke thickness traditionally used in tonal modeling. We introduce a novel fast equilibration approach for the resulting thresholding structure. The user can specify smudging and control the amount of detail over each part of the

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGWR/EGWR01/071-082
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Rendering
},
editor = {S. J. Gortle and K. Myszkowski
},
title = {{Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes for Interactive Traditional Drawing
}},
author = {Durand, Frédo and 
Ostromoukhov, Victor and 
Miller, Mathieu and 
Duranleau, Francois and 
Dorsey, Julie
},
year = {2001
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3463
},
ISBN = {3-211-83709-4
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGWR/EGWR01/071-082
}
}