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We couple artificial ant and computer graphics techniques to create an approach to Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR). A user interactively takes turns with an artificial ant colony to transform a photograph into a stylized picture. In turn with the user specifying its control parameters, members of a colony of artificial ants scan the source image locally, following strong edges or wandering around flat zones, and draw marks on the canvas depending on their discoveries. Among a variety of obtained effects, two are painterly rendering and pencil sketching.
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Semet, Y., O’Reilly, UM., Durand, F. (2004). An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-photorealistic Rendering. In: Deb, K. (eds) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation – GECCO 2004. GECCO 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24854-5_17
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