Simple Art as Abstractions of Photographs

Hall, Peter; Song, Yi-Zhe

Simple Art as Abstractions of Photographs

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2013

Authors

Hall, Peter
Song, Yi-Zhe

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ACM

Abstract

This paper shows that it is possible to semi-automatically process photographs into Simple Art. Simple Art is a term that we use to refer to a group of artistic styles such a child art, cave art, and Fine Artists as exemplified by Joan Mir´o. None of these styles has been previously studied by the NPR community. Our contribution is to provide a process that makes them accessible. We describe a method that automatically constructs a hierarchical model of an input photograph, and asks a user to identify objects inside it. Each object is a sub-tree, which can be rendered under user control. The method is demonstrated using emulations of Simple Art. We include an assessment of our results against a set of norms recommended by a Cultural Historian. We conclude that producing Simple Art raises important technical questions, especially surrounding the interplay between computational modelling and human abstractions.

        @inproceedings{10.1145:2487276.2487288
,
booktitle = {Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
},
editor = {Donald House and Cindy Grimm
},
title = {{Simple Art as Abstractions of Photographs
}},
author = {Hall, Peter and 
Song, Yi-Zhe
},
year = {2013
},
publisher = {ACM
},
ISSN = {1816-0859
},
ISBN = {978-1-4503-2203-4
},
DOI = {10.1145/2487276.2487288
}
}