Geometric Clustering for Line Drawing Simplification

Barla, Pascal; Thollot, Joelle; Sillion, François X.

Geometric Clustering for Line Drawing Simplification

Files

183-192.pdf (2.48 MB)

Date

2005

Authors

Barla, Pascal
Thollot, Joelle
Sillion, François X.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present a new approach to the simplification of line drawings, in which a smaller set of lines is created to represent the geometry of the original lines. An important feature of our method is that it maintains the morphological structure of the original drawing while allowing user-defined decisions about the appearance of lines. The technique works by analyzing the structure of the drawing at a certain scale and identifying clusters of lines that can be merged given a specific error threshold. These clusters are then processed to create new lines, in a separate stage where different behaviors can be favored based on the application. Successful results are presented for a variety of drawings including scanned and vectorized artwork, original vector drawings, drawings created from 3d models, and hatching marks. The clustering technique is shown to be effective in all these situations.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/183-192
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2005)
},
editor = {Kavita Bala and Philip Dutre
},
title = {{Geometric Clustering for Line Drawing Simplification
}},
author = {Barla, Pascal and 
Thollot, Joelle and 
Sillion, François X.
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3463
},
ISBN = {3-905673-23-1
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/183-192
}
}