String Art: Towards Computational Fabrication of String Images

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dc.contributor.authorBirsak, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorRist, Florianen_US
dc.contributor.authorWonka, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.authorMusialski, Przemyslawen_US
dc.contributor.editorGutierrez, Diego and Sheffer, Allaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-14T18:24:23Z
dc.date.available2018-04-14T18:24:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we propose a novel method for the automatic computation and digital fabrication of artistic string images. String art is a technique used by artists for the creation of abstracted images which are composed of straight lines of strings tensioned between pins distributed on a frame. Together the strings fuse to a perceptible image. Traditionally, artists craft such images manually in a highly sophisticated and tedious design process. To achieve this goal fully automatically we propose a computational setup driven by a discrete optimization algorithm which takes an ordinary picture as input and converts it into a connected graph of strings that tries to reassemble the input image best possibly. Furthermore, we propose a hardware setup for automatic digital fabrication of these images using an industrial robot that spans the strings. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of our approach by generating and fabricating a set of real string art images.en_US
dc.description.number2
dc.description.sectionheadersComputational Fabrication
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13359
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages263-274
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13359
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13359
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleString Art: Towards Computational Fabrication of String Imagesen_US
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