PIXEL2BRICK: Constructing Brick Sculptures from Pixel Art

dc.contributor.authorKuo, Ming-Hsunen_US
dc.contributor.authorLin, You-Enen_US
dc.contributor.authorChu, Hung-Kuoen_US
dc.contributor.authorLee, Ruen-Roneen_US
dc.contributor.authorYang, Yong-Liangen_US
dc.contributor.editorStam, Jos and Mitra, Niloy J. and Xu, Kunen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-07T05:12:52Z
dc.date.available2015-10-07T05:12:52Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractLEGO, a popular brick-based toy construction system, provides an affordable and convenient way of fabricating geometric shapes. However, building arbitrary shapes using LEGO bricks with restrictive colors and sizes is not trivial. It requires careful design process to produce appealing, stable and constructable brick sculptures. In this work, we investigate the novel problem of constructing brick sculptures from pixel art images. In contrast to previous efforts that focus on 3D models, pixel art contains rich visual contents for generating engaging LEGO designs. On the other hand, the characteristics of pixel art and corresponding brick sculpture pose new challenges to the design process. We present PIXEL2BRICK, a novel computational framework to automatically construct brick sculptures from pixel art. This is based on implementing a set of design guidelines concerning the visual quality as well as the structural stability of built sculptures. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework with various brick sculptures (both real and virtual) generated from a variety of pixel art images. Experimental results show that our framework is efficient and gains significant improvements over state-of-the-arts.en_US
dc.description.number7en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersStylizationen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume34en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12772en_US
dc.identifier.pages339-348en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12772en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titlePIXEL2BRICK: Constructing Brick Sculptures from Pixel Arten_US
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