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A Non-photorealistic Rendering of Seurat’s Pointillism

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2006)

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In recent years, there has been a trend on simulating impressionism with computers. Among the various styles of impressionism, we are particularly interested in simulating the style of pointillism, especially the style presented by Georges-Pierre Seurat, as he was deemed the founder of pointillism. The reason that his style attracts us is twofold. First, the painting process of pointillism is extremely laborious, so simulating his painting style by computers is desired. Second, though several existing impressionism algorithms may approximate pointillism with point-like strokes, some delicate features frequently observed in Seurat’s paintings are still not satisfactorily reflected by those general schemes. To achieve simulating Seurat’s painting style, we made careful observations on all accessible Seurat’s paintings and extract from them some important features, such as the few primitive colors, point sizes, and the effects of complementary colors and halos. These features have been successfully simulated and results are compared with not only Seurat’s existing paintings, but also with previous attempted simulations.

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  1. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC

    Hui-Lin Yang & Chuan-Kai Yang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Intel, 95052, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Ara Nefian

  7. University of California, 430, Computer Science Building, 92697-3425, Irvine, CA, USA

    Gopi Meenakshisundaram

  8. Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, P.O. Box

    Valerio Pascucci

  9. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech

    Jiri Zara

  10. Rockwell Scientific, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, 91360, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

    Jose Molineros

  11. Computer Graphics Group, Bielefeld University, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Holger Theisel

  12. Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Tom Malzbender

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Yang, HL., Yang, CK. (2006). A Non-photorealistic Rendering of Seurat’s Pointillism. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11919629_76

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