Arty Shapes

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2008
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The Eurographics Association
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This paper shows that shape simplification is a tool useful in Non-Photorealistic rendering from photographs, because it permits a level of abstraction otherwise unreachable. A variety of simple shapes (e.g. circles, triangles, squares, superellipses and so on) are optimally fitted to each region within a segmented photograph. The system automatically chooses the shape that best represents the region; the choice is made via a supervised classifier so the 'best shape' depends on the subjectivity of a user. The whole process is fully automatic, aside from the setting of two user variables to control the number of regions in a pair of segmentations - and even these can be left fixed for many images. A gallery of results shows how this work reaches towards the art of later Matisse, of Kandinsky, and other artists who favored shape simplification in their paintings.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH08/065-072
, booktitle = {
Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
}, editor = {
Douglas W. Cunningham and Victoria Interrante and Paul Brown and Jon McCormack
}, title = {{
Arty Shapes
}}, author = {
Song, Yi-Zhe
and
Rosin, Paul L.
and
Hall, Peter M.
and
Collomosse, John
}, year = {
2008
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1816-0859
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905674-08-8
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH08/065-072
} }
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