Arty Shapes

Song, Yi-Zhe; Rosin, Paul L.; Hall, Peter M.; Collomosse, John

Arty Shapes

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Date

2008

Authors

Song, Yi-Zhe
Rosin, Paul L.
Hall, Peter M.
Collomosse, John

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper shows that shape simplification is a tool useful in Non-Photorealistic rendering from photographs, because it permits a level of abstraction otherwise unreachable. A variety of simple shapes (e.g. circles, triangles, squares, superellipses and so on) are optimally fitted to each region within a segmented photograph. The system automatically chooses the shape that best represents the region; the choice is made via a supervised classifier so the 'best shape' depends on the subjectivity of a user. The whole process is fully automatic, aside from the setting of two user variables to control the number of regions in a pair of segmentations - and even these can be left fixed for many images. A gallery of results shows how this work reaches towards the art of later Matisse, of Kandinsky, and other artists who favored shape simplification in their paintings.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH08/065-072
,
booktitle = {Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
},
editor = {Douglas W. Cunningham and Victoria Interrante and Paul Brown and Jon McCormack
},
title = {{Arty Shapes
}},
author = {Song, Yi-Zhe and 
Rosin, Paul L. and 
Hall, Peter M. and 
Collomosse, John
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1816-0859
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-08-8
},
DOI = {10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH08/065-072
}
}