Inglis, Tiffany C.Kaplan, Craig S.Paul Asente and Cindy Grimm2013-11-082013-11-082012978-3-905673-90-6https://doi.org/10.2312/PE/NPAR/NPAR12/021-028Creating pixel art is a laborious process that requires artists to place individual pixels by hand. Although many image editors provide vector-to-raster conversions, the results produced do not meet the standards of pixel art: artifacts such as jaggies or broken lines frequently occur. We describe a novel Pixelation algorithm that rasterizes vector line art while adhering to established conventions used by pixel artists. We compare our results through a user study to those generated by Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as hand-drawn samples by both amateur and professional pixel artists.CR Categories: I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Bitmap and framebuffer operations; Keywords: rasterization, pixel art